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Films
6 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Region
“North and Northeast Africa”
x
films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
6
x
films available on demand
2
Region
North and Northeast Africa
6
x
Western Europe
1
Country
Egypt
1
Eritrea
1
Ethiopia
3
Germany
1
Morocco
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Children / Young people
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Development projects
1
Environment
1
Food / Water
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Migration
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
2
Rural
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Cook, Alistair
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
not set
2
Country of production
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
1
Germany
2
Japan
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1995
1
2006
1
2009
1
2014
1
2018
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
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity
Fresh Fields
1995
31
‘
Directed by
Alistair Cook
.
From conflict to construction — this is the story of two disabled ex-fighters rebuilding their lives. What does the future hold for them in Eritrea, the homeland to which they are committed?
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Development projects
Only Thinking
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Gabriel Merrun
.
On the North African coast in Ceuta, illegal migrants wait and hope to eventually continue onto the Spanish peninsula where they can attain asylum. Whilst waiting there, they are caught bewteen the borders.
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
The Orchard Keepers
2014
24
‘
Directed by
Bryony Dunne
.
Against the backdrop of political upheaval, an ancient network of orchards thrives in the mountains of the Sinai desert. Filmmaker Bryony Dunne shadows two Bedouins as they nurture their gardens and
North and Northeast Africa
Environment
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Rural
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity