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Films
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Australia
12
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15
Caribbean Islands
3
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1
Central America
5
Central Asia and Far East
19
Central Europe
9
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4
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2
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7
Middle and Near East
9
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22
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11
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5
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12
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22
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11
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35
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5
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4
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16
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19
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6
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3
Country
Afghanistan
3
Australia
12
Austria
5
Bangladesh
1
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3
Bolivia
1
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1
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1
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3
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5
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1
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2
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1
China
7
Colombia
1
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1
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1
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3
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1
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2
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1
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1
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7
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1
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6
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4
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4
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3
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1
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1
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1
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16
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9
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1
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24
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1
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1
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4
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2
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
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1
Mexico
5
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1
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1
Nepal
3
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
5
Norway
1
Pakistan
2
Palestine
2
Papua New Guinea
4
Peru
1
Poland
1
Portugal
1
Republic of Macedonia
1
Romania
3
Russian Federation
3
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
2
Singapore
1
Slovenia
2
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
1
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1
Spain
2
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3
Sweden
1
Switzerland
2
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2
Taiwan
1
The Netherlands
1
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
2
United Kingdom
16
United States
20
Uzbekistan
1
Vanuatu
1
Various
4
Venezuela
3
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
1
not set
5
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
9
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
8
Animals
11
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
5
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
5
Art / Artists / Artisans
14
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
21
Children/ Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
21
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
10
Dance / Theatre / Performance
6
Death
9
Development projects
6
Digital media
1
Disasters
2
Education / Knowledge Transmission
9
Education / Knowledge transmission
4
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
3
Environment
5
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
3
Everyday Life
13
Family / Kinship
10
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
42
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
3
Folklore
38
Food / Water
6
Gender Role and Identity
22
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
10
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
3
History
2
History of Anthropology
7
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
4
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
8
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
18
Informant-researcher relationship
6
Infrastructure / Transport
6
Infrastructure/transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Intergenerational relations
3
Internet
3
LGBTQI*
2
Labour
7
Land Rights
8
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
5
Life Story / Life History
4
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
3
Love
4
Marriage
7
Material Culture
7
Memory
2
Migration
13
Music / Ethnomusicology
17
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Myths/ Fairy tales
1
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
4
Participatory / Collaborative methods
4
Personal Narrative
4
Political Activists
8
Popular Culture
1
Possession
2
Post-communism
1
Prison
1
Public Figure
5
Race / Racism / Antiracism
8
Reflexivity
10
Refugees / Displaced populations
6
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
23
Research Methods
1
Resettlement
1
Resistance
4
Ritual
15
Rural
15
Sensory Ethnography
1
Sex / Sexuality
8
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
13
Social Conflict
6
Social Organisation
2
Social participation
2
Socioeconomic conditions
9
Sport
5
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
5
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
6
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
2
Trade
11
Travellers / Roma
4
Urban
9
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
7
not set
1
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arias Ortiz, Carolina
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Asch, Patsy
3
Asch, Timothy
4
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
3
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
2
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Blake, John
1
Bloching, Max
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Cai, Hua
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Connor, Linda
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Croall, Heather
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Davies, Sera
1
De Groof, Matthias
1
Defersha, Eyob
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Grimshaw, Anna
12
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Haddis, Tesfahun
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Howes, Arthur
1
Husmann, Rolf
2
Jayasankar, KP
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lappalainen, Heimo
2
Lawrence, Andy
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Longinotto, Kim
4
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Lydall, Jean
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
15
MacDougall, Judith
7
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
1
Mansu, Marcia
1
Marin, Nadja
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Monteiro, Anjali
1
Moore, Allen
1
Moser, Brian
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Ndinya, June
1
Newman, David
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nitzky, William
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Otto, Ton
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Rasmussen, Ulla Boje
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
3
Roy, Rahul
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
3
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Singer, André
4
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Song, Zhifang
3
Sorensen, Richard
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
3
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Strecker, Ivo
1
Strecker, Kaira
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
3
Werner, Louis
1
Williams, Stacey
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
not set
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
Östör, Ákos
2
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
4
Carnival King of Europe
38
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
4
Disappearing World Series
2
Doon School Project
2
George’s Place
2
George’s Place: A seven part film series
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
44
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
5
Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods
4
National Film and Television School
2
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
Strangers Abroad
3
Sudan Trilogy
1
Taiga Nomads
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
Turkana Conversations
1
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
1
not set
93
Country of production
Australia
26
Belgium
3
Brazil
2
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Costa Rica
1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
3
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
4
Finland
2
France
4
Germany
12
Ghana
1
Greece
1
Iceland
1
India
8
Indonesia
2
Italy
40
Jamaica
1
Japan
4
Kenya
1
Mexico
1
Netherlands
4
Nigeria
3
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Spain
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
87
United States
34
Uzbekistan
1
not set
3
Year of production
not set
1
1963
1
1964
1
1969
1
1972
1
1973
2
1974
1
1975
1
1976
1
1978
2
1979
1
1980
2
1981
2
1982
1
1983
2
1984
3
1985
5
1986
6
1987
2
1988
3
1989
3
1991
3
1992
3
1993
2
1994
2
1995
3
1996
3
1997
1
1998
3
1999
4
2000
2
2001
8
2002
4
2003
3
2004
5
2005
5
2006
3
2007
3
2008
12
2009
12
2010
8
2011
9
2012
6
2013
9
2014
11
2015
9
2016
10
2017
11
2018
9
2019
14
2020
20
2021
2
2022
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Bang the Drum
2020
28
‘
Directed by
William Nitzky
.
For the Yao minority in rural southwest China, the bronze drum is a sacred heritage. Its sound aids the souls of deceased elders in reaching the ancestral land. When the Chinese government steps in
Central Asia and Far East
Music/ Ethnomusicology
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
Rural
Shamans and Shamanism
The Bear Chase
2009
7
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
In the Catalan-speaking southern France, a proper “Bear Chase”, of the kind that was once popular throughout Europe, has been revived in a carnival context. This film is part of **Carnival
Western Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
The Beautiful White Masks of Rèsije
2017
15
‘
Directed by
Michele Trentini
.
In a small community of Italian Slavic-speakers, the performance by the Beautiful White Masks, impersonated by women, comes to an abrupt end with the burning of the Babaz. This film is part of
South-East Europe
Festivals / Carnival
Folklore
Breaking the Yard
2018
21
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Burying Hallelujah
2014
51
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Hallelujah, a ‘bush mechanic’ turned archbishop, gets the funeral he deserves, one of the very biggest in Botswana’s railway town, Palapye. Many churches come together, their robes, splendid, their
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death