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4
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6
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1
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17
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4
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5
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3
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4
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2
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1
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1
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1
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8
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7
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1
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1
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1
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1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
4
Animals
5
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
4
Archival material / Museum displays
4
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5
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
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2
Children / Young people
9
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1
Collective / Community identity
9
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5
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3
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4
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4
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1
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1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
3
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
2
Environment
3
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
40
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Folklore
38
Food / Water
2
Gender Role and Identity
9
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
7
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Infrastructure/transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
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2
Internet
3
LGBTQI*
1
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2
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2
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1
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3
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7
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8
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2
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1
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1
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4
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6
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2
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1
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11
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1
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1
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2
Ritual
9
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4
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1
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4
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1
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8
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2
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3
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4
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2
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5
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4
Directors
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Asch, Patsy
2
Asch, Timothy
2
Baily, John
1
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Cai, Hua
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nitzky, William
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
3
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
3
Song, Zhifang
3
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
3
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Werner, Louis
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
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Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
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Östör, Ákos
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
3
Carnival King of Europe
38
Decolonising Shorts
4
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
43
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
not set
25
Country of production
Australia
8
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Denmark
1
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
1
France
1
Germany
3
Greece
1
Iceland
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
37
Japan
4
Mexico
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
2
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
57
United States
12
Uzbekistan
1
Year of production
1963
1
1964
1
1973
2
1983
1
1984
1
1985
1
1986
1
1987
1
1988
2
1989
1
1992
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1993
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1994
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1995
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1996
3
1997
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1998
1
1999
3
2000
1
2001
5
2002
4
2003
2
2004
5
2006
3
2007
1
2008
9
2009
8
2010
8
2011
6
2012
2
2013
4
2014
7
2015
6
2016
6
2017
7
2018
6
2019
10
2020
11
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
2016
37
‘
Directed by
Mara Lin Visser
.
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa
Trade
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Untouched Rock
2008
28
‘
Directed by
James Vybiral
.
‘Untouched Rock’ follows a British climbing expedition to Greenland where six young men hope to establish new routes on the mountains of ‘the un-named valley’.
North America
Children / Young people
Sport
Usch in the Bush
2001
32
‘
Directed by
Michaela Schäuble
.
In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been
West Africa
Personal Narrative
Alternative culture
Uzu
2015
27
‘
Directed by
Gaspard Kuentz
.
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity