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Films
8 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Agriculture Farming”
x
films with a digital version
5
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
8
x
films available on demand
4
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
Scandinavia
1
South America
1
West Africa
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Ethiopia
1
Italy
1
Nepal
1
Norway
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Senegal
1
Turkey
1
not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
7
x
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Animals
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Everyday Life
1
Family/ Kinship
1
Food / Water
1
Gender Role and identity
1
Labour
1
Ritual
1
Rural
2
Social Change
1
Directors
Dyson, Jane
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
National Film and Television School
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
Shorts collection 2
2
not set
1
Country of production
Ethiopia
1
France
1
Germany
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
5
Year of production
1987
1
1988
1
1998
1
2003
1
2018
1
2019
1
2020
2
Film list
Dancing Grass. Harvesting teff in the Tigrean highlands
2018
40
‘
Directed by
Mitiku Gabrehiwot
.
Dancing Grass is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). It captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Food / Water
The Dream of Maelen
2003
25
‘
Directed by
Eirik Sandberg
.
Arne Bakke Mælen lives alone on the small family farm he inherited on the edge of a fjord. The farm is no longer viable economically and, like many small farmers in Norway, he has not found a woman
Scandinavia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Rural
Agriculture / Farming
Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea
1988
25
‘
Directed by
Ariane Lewis
Jon Jerstad
.
A detailed account of domestic life in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea, mainly from the women’s point of view. It describes their everyday activities in the ‘gardens’ in order to produce
Melanesia
Agriculture / Farming
Children / Young people
Ritual
Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer
1987
34
‘
Directed by
Bob Edwards
Alastair Kenneil
.
The 1982 war between Britain and Argentina brought the Falkland or Malwinas Islands into the news headlines. This film is less spectacular: It shows the way of life of one inhabitant of this
South America
Animals
Agriculture / Farming
Land Lot S7
2020
28
‘
Directed by
Abtin Sarabi
.
Following sugar cane field workers in Senegal as they chop and burn their way through seemingly endless fields, this poetic film takes an unconventional approach to understanding the gruelling work
West Africa
Labour
Agriculture / Farming
Ocak
2020
28
‘
Directed by
Zeynep Kaserci
.
The story of a family who earns their livelihood as hazelnut cultivators in rural north-eastern Turkey. Filmed in an observational style, it offers glimpses into the local social life of the village
Middle and Near East
Collective / Community identity
Agriculture / Farming
Rural
Spirit
2019
19
‘
Directed by
Jane Dyson
Ross Harrison
.
Saraswati is a new arrival in an Indian Himalayan village. She wonders how she will ever feel at home in the new setting. “Spirit” by Jane Dyson and Ross Harrison is a story of longing and
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and identity
Agriculture/ Farming
Everyday Life
Family/ Kinship
Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love
1998
30
‘
Directed by
Cristina Grasseni
.
An observational documentary about dairy farmers in the Italian Alps. Caught between pride for tradition and the pressure for modernisation, the story of one family is told through the eyes of
Western Mediterranean
Agriculture / Farming
Social Change