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Films
4 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Region
“West Africa”
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Keywords
“Religion Belief Faith”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
4
x
Region
Scandinavia
1
West Africa
4
x
Country
Cameroon
1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Nigeria
2
Norway
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Everyday Life
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
4
x
Ritual
1
Social Conflict
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Beier, Ulli
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Speed, Frank
2
Waage, Trond
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
not set
3
Country of production
Cameroon
1
Nigeria
1
Norway
1
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1964
1
1984
1
2008
1
2016
1
Film list
Living with Boko Haram
2016
37
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Trond Waage
.
January 2015. Boko Haram’s violent insurgency is approaching Mogdé, on the Nigerian/Cameroonian border, where Antoniette lives. Just outside Oslo, Norway, lives her son Vakote, worried and afraid
West Africa
Scandinavia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Conflict
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Migration
New Images
1964
27
‘
Directed by
Ulli Beier
Frank Speed
.
The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the
West Africa
Art / Artists / Artisans
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archival material / Museum displays
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
Thanks Be to God
2008
31
‘
Directed by
Patrícia Pedrosa
.
Four Christian women work and live in a Muslim and patriarchic world. The ‘Sisters of the Consolata Missionaries’ are building a new library in Empada, a small village in the south of
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith