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Films
3 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Post-communism”
x
Series
“Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film”
x
short films
3
x
Region
Central Asia and Far East
2
South-East Europe
1
Country
Mongolia
1
Romania
1
Russian Federation
1
Keywords
Elderly people
1
Memory
1
Post-communism
3
x
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Directors
Bernstein, Anya
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
x
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
2000
1
2001
1
2008
1
Film list
Call for Grace
2000
30
‘
Student
Directed by
Laetitia Merli
.
During Mongolia’s seventy years of domination by the Soviet Union, shamanism, like many aspects of Mongolian tradition, was forbidden by the Communist authorities, and went into decline. Since the
Central Asia and Far East
Shamans and Shamanism
Post-communism
Endgames
2008
32
‘
Directed by
Ilinca Calugareanu
.
The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters – Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Elderly people
Memory
Join Me in Shambala
2001
30
‘
Directed by
Anya Bernstein
.
Once brutally persecuted under the Soviet regime, Buddhism is re-emerging in Siberia. But with a past where Lamas were killed in prisons and temples burnt to the ground, there are few masters left to
Central Asia and Far East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Post-communism