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Films
6 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Region
“West Africa”
x
Series
“Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film”
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short films
6
x
Region
West Africa
6
x
Western Europe
1
Country
Cape Verde
1
Denmark
1
Ghana
2
Guinea-Bissau
1
Sierra Leone
1
Togo
1
Keywords
Alternative culture
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Personal Narrative
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Nicolau, João
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
6
x
Country of production
United Kingdom
6
Year of production
1999
1
2000
1
2001
1
2008
1
2010
1
2011
1
Film list
Changes
2010
30
‘
Directed by
Afua Asare-Nyako
.
Kwabena wants to move back to Ghana, the country he left more than 30 years ago. This film shows one of the many journeys that he has to take in preparation for his return. It explores the motives
West Africa
Western Europe
Migration
Jungle Cat
2000
29
‘
Directed by
Natalie Schädler
.
In search of the righteous way of living, the Liberian rapper CyLover, aka as ‘Jungle Cat’ wants to make music for his people. Now based in Ghana, the big chance to finish his first album approaches
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Shooting Freetown
2011
29
‘
Directed by
Kieran Hanson
.
A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,
West Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Reflexivity
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
Usch in the Bush
2001
32
‘
Directed by
Michaela Schäuble
.
In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been
West Africa
Personal Narrative
Alternative culture
You Can’t Live With Your Mouth Shut
1999
29
‘
Directed by
João Nicolau
.
Cape Verde is an archipelago situated 500km off the West Coast of Africa. On the island of Santiago lives Mano Mendi, the last player of cimboa, a one-string violin used to accompany the traditional
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology