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Films
160 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Showing 4
Title initial
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films with a digital version
39
short films
160
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films available on demand
9
Title initial
A
1
B
12
C
7
D
7
E
5
F
7
G
9
H
10
I
9
J
3
K
1
L
9
M
10
N
3
O
3
P
4
R
9
S
26
T
12
U
3
V
4
x
W
4
Y
2
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
34
Caribbean Islands
5
Central America
4
Central Asia and Far East
9
Central Europe
2
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
8
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
2
Scandinavia
6
South America
17
South Asia
11
South-East Asia
5
South-East Europe
9
Southern Africa
6
West Africa
13
Western Europe
12
Western Mediterranean
9
Country
Afghanistan
3
Anguilla
1
Australia
2
Austria
1
Botswana
1
Brazil
5
Canada
1
Cape Verde
1
Chile
1
China
3
Colombia
2
Cyprus
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
4
Ecuador
1
Eritrea
1
France
2
Germany
5
Ghana
2
Greece
2
Greenland
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Haiti
1
India
7
Indonesia
2
Ireland
1
Israel
1
Italy
3
Jamaica
2
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Malawi
1
Malta
2
Mexico
3
Mongolia
1
Morocco
1
Myanmar
1
Namibia
1
Nepal
4
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
7
Norway
2
Palestine
2
Papua New Guinea
2
Peru
4
Portugal
2
Romania
5
Russian Federation
2
Sierra Leone
2
South Africa
1
Spain
2
Sweden
2
Switzerland
1
Syria
1
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
United Kingdom
35
United States
6
Venezuela
3
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
14
Animals
8
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
7
Art / Artists / Artisans
8
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
17
Collective / Community identity
9
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
10
Death
4
Development projects
6
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
4
Education / Knowledge transmission
3
Elderly people
5
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
2
Everyday Life
2
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
3
Film / Photography / Mass media
7
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
10
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
7
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
1
History
3
History of Anthropology
2
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
4
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
10
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
5
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
3
Labour
7
Land Rights
4
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
4
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Love
3
Marriage
5
Material Culture
6
Memory
8
Migration
8
Music / Ethnomusicology
7
Nationalism
1
Personal Narrative
3
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
3
Possession
1
Post-communism
4
Prison
1
Public Figure
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
3
Reflexivity
3
Refugees / Displaced populations
6
Religion / Belief / Faith
19
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
16
Rural
2
Sex / Sexuality
4
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
6
Social Conflict
4
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
5
Sport
5
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
7
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
6
Trade
5
Travellers / Roma
4
Urban
12
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
10
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bolchover, James
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Ford, Ellie
1
French, Dominic
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Griggs, David
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Milling, Julie
1
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
1
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
6
Stefani, Fotini
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
116
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
National Film and Television School
4
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
32
Country of production
Austria
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
2
Jordan
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
5
Peru
1
Romania
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
160
x
United States
3
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1931
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
1
1975
1
1982
1
1983
3
1984
1
1985
1
1987
2
1988
2
1991
2
1992
4
1993
1
1994
4
1995
4
1996
4
1997
5
1998
6
1999
4
2000
6
2001
7
2002
10
2003
11
2004
8
2005
2
2006
2
2007
7
2008
12
2009
11
2010
13
2011
4
2012
2
2013
1
2014
1
2015
2
2016
2
2018
3
2019
3
2020
3
Film list
Vaud and the Villains
2010
30
‘
Directed by
Lukas Belkind
.
Three members of an 18-piece, 1930s style, American folk big band explore their personal relationships with Los Angeles, performing, the music they love, and the band that binds them all together.
North America
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Vendemos Recuerdos
2009
25
‘
Directed by
Carolina Corral Paredes
.
Carlos is an enthusiastic tour guide and Doña Rosa is an indigenous old woman that sells crafts in the market. Both of their life’s works are an effort to provide what inquisitive tourists might
Central America
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade
Views from Heavenly Lake
2010
26
‘
Directed by
Polly Vinken
.
Since the beginning of the Mao era in 1949, populations that were once nomadic, isolated by miles of desert and mountains across the Tian Shan ranges, are now becoming highly sought after objects of
Central Asia and Far East
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Social Change
Vivir la Chicha
2003
28
‘
Directed by
Sharis Coppens
.
Chicha music evokes the experiences of the many Peruvians who migrate from the high Andes down to the cities. This film tells the story of Aurora Ramos, a cobbler and market saleswoman, and the role
South America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Trade
Migration