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Films
5 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Health Healthcare Healing”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
5
x
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
South Asia
2
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
1
Country
India
2
Myanmar
1
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Personal Narrative
1
Possession
1
Ritual
1
Directors
Engels, Claudia
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Ross, Nina
1
Speed, Frank
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
Shorts Collection 2
1
not set
1
Country of production
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1963
1
2001
1
2004
1
2008
1
2020
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze
2020
27
‘
Directed by
Nina Ross
.
As a child, Nancy Willis dreamt of joining the circus, longing for freedom and adventure. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and told she would not live beyond her twenties, the now 65-year-old artist
British-Irish Isles
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
Personal Narrative
Health/ Health care/ Healing
Life Story/ Life History
The Second Red Line
2004
25
‘
Directed by
Veera Lehto
.
In HIV testing, the second red line is the indication of a positive result. This film follows two volunteers working with HIV & Aids sufferers in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. In the
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Development projects
A Spark in Him
2008
28
‘
Directed by
Claudia Engels
.
‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village
2001
31
‘
Directed by
Henriette Levaulx-Vrecourt
.
In Tia village, in an isolated area of Ladakh – North West India – lives an amchi (a local herbal doctor) and his wife. It is summer – a short season in the Indian Himalayas and the only period of
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession