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Films
8 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Social Change”
x
Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
8
x
films available on demand
1
Region
Central America
1
Central Asia and Far East
3
South America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
China
3
Cyprus
1
Italy
1
Mexico
1
Pakistan
1
not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Family / Kinship
2
Festivals / Carnival
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
History
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Marriage
2
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Social Change
8
x
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
Directors
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Drion, Georges
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Henley, Paul
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
2
Savage, Rebecca
1
Seaman, Gary
2
Song, Zhifang
2
Vinken, Polly
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
Shorts Collection 2
1
Song Family Village
2
not set
2
Country of production
China
2
Pakistan
1
United Kingdom
5
United States
2
Year of production
1985
1
1987
1
1998
1
2006
1
2009
2
2010
1
2020
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Marriage, Maoism and Modernity
2009
30
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
This film outlines the types of marriage exchange practiced in a Chinese village over the last fifty years. Dowry, brideprice and exchange marriages have dominated the marriage market in turn as
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
History
Social Change
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
‘
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
This Is A Majlis – A Sound Essay
2020
17
‘
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
Abeera Arif-Bashir
.
This short film is a multi-platform sound essay. It is primarily illustrated with still images, that conjure an atmosphere of intimacy and intensity of the majlis-e-aza, a mourning gathering central
South Asia
Music/Ethnomusicology
Urban
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
Social Change
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
Tiempo de Vals
2006
22
‘
Directed by
Rebecca Savage
.
The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is
Central America
Festivals / Carnival
Social Change
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