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Films
316 Films
Country of production
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151
films hosted on Kanopy
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short films
160
films available on demand
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B
20
C
19
D
14
E
11
F
10
G
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H
22
I
12
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J
3
K
15
L
19
M
24
N
6
O
5
P
7
Q
1
R
15
S
42
T
24
U
8
V
6
W
10
Y
2
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
48
Caribbean Islands
5
Central Africa
1
Central America
7
Central Asia and Far East
20
Central Europe
3
East Africa
9
London
1
Melanesia
9
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
18
New Zealand and Polynesia
2
North America
16
North and Northeast Africa
15
Scandinavia
6
South America
36
South Asia
26
South-East Asia
16
South-East Europe
14
Southern Africa
15
Various
8
West Africa
20
Western Europe
17
Western Mediterranean
12
Country
Afghanistan
8
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
2
Austria
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Botswana
7
Brazil
12
Burkina Faso
1
Cameroon
2
Canada
2
Cape Verde
1
Chile
1
China
7
Colombia
5
Cyprus
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
4
Ecuador
1
Egypt
1
Eritrea
1
Ethiopia
6
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
6
Germany
5
Ghana
4
Greece
3
Greenland
1
Guatemala
2
Guinea-Bissau
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
India
14
Indonesia
10
Iran
3
Ireland
1
Israel
1
Italy
5
Jamaica
2
Japan
9
Jordan
1
Kenya
7
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Madagascar
1
Malawi
1
Malta
2
Mexico
3
Mongolia
3
Morocco
2
Myanmar
3
Namibia
1
Nepal
5
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
8
Norway
2
Pakistan
5
Palestine
3
Papua New Guinea
8
Paraguay
1
Peru
6
Portugal
3
Puerto Rico
1
Romania
5
Russian Federation
3
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
3
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
3
Spain
3
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
2
Switzerland
1
Syria
2
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
51
United States
11
Various
8
Venezuela
8
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
9
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
15
Animals
17
Animation
2
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
9
Art / Artists / Artisans
11
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
24
Collective / Community identity
23
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
Dance / Theatre / Performance
19
Death
8
Development projects
13
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
9
Education / Knowledge transmission
4
Elderly people
5
Environment
5
Ethnofiction
3
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
16
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
10
Film / Photography / Mass media
14
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
39
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
22
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
11
History
5
History of Anthropology
13
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
11
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
20
Informant-researcher relationship
5
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
6
Intergenerational relations
7
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
5
Labour
13
Land Rights
12
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
9
Life Story / Life History
3
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
5
Marriage
16
Material Culture
7
Memory
12
Migration
13
Music / Ethnomusicology
20
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
7
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
4
Political Activists
12
Popular Culture
4
Possession
4
Post-communism
5
Prison
2
Public Figure
10
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
16
Religion / Belief / Faith
46
Reproduction (biology)
3
Research methods
1
Resistance
5
Ritual
45
Rural
15
Sex / Sexuality
8
Shamans and Shamanism
3
Social Change
32
Social Conflict
12
Social Norms
3
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
14
Sport
7
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
9
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
14
Trade
7
Travellers / Roma
5
Urban
14
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
25
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Blake, John
2
Bolchover, James
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Cross, Stephen
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Curling, Chris
5
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
2
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Flores, Carlos
1
Ford, Ellie
1
French, Dominic
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Griggs, David
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
6
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
2
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
2
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Longinotto, Kim
16
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Milling, Julie
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
1
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Moser, Brian
7
Munro, Neil G.
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Nairn, Charlie
5
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Picard, David
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Powell, Harry
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Ravetz, Amanda
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
1
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
16
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Wason, David
5
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
10
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Jano
3
Williams, Stacey
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
Øien, Cecilie
1
Series
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
121
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
5
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
8
Turkana Conversations
1
not set
99
Country of production
Australia
2
Austria
1
Brazil
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
3
India
2
Indonesia
2
Italy
2
Jordan
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Romania
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
316
x
United States
9
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1931
1
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
9
1975
5
1976
1
1977
6
1979
4
1980
2
1981
1
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
7
1986
6
1987
9
1988
9
1989
11
1990
5
1991
7
1992
5
1993
6
1994
4
1995
4
1996
5
1997
7
1998
8
1999
8
2000
9
2001
10
2002
11
2003
12
2004
9
2005
5
2006
7
2007
11
2008
18
2009
14
2010
16
2011
6
2012
3
2013
2
2014
4
2015
6
2016
3
2018
4
2019
3
2020
4
2021
2
Film list
Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer
1987
34
‘
Directed by
Bob Edwards
Alastair Kenneil
.
The 1982 war between Britain and Argentina brought the Falkland or Malwinas Islands into the news headlines. This film is less spectacular: It shows the way of life of one inhabitant of this
South America
Animals
Agriculture / Farming
IT WAS TOMORROW
2018
53
‘
Student
Directed by
Alexandra D’onofrio
.
After living in Italy for almost ten years without documents, three Egyptian men – Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed – are suddenly awarded legal residence. As a whole new world of opportunities opens up to
Western Mediterranean
Animation
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Life Story / Life History
Memory
Migration
Research methods
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda
1988
69
‘
Directed by
Richard Hawkins
.
An insightful documentary, constructed with visual restraint, about the male circumcision ritual among the Gisu of Uganda. The narrative follows one male participant through the ritual and contrasts
East Africa
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘In the Light of Memory’ explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
In Our Blood
2003
26
‘
Directed by
Steve Vella
.
In Malta, devotion to the Virgin Mary is very fervent, particularly in the village of Naxxar, where the most important annual feast, taking place over several days, is dedicated to her honour. But
Western Mediterranean
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
In Pursuit of Happiness
2009
31
‘
Directed by
Ray Ono
.
Tokyo life as rarely seen on mainstream media. This short film takes you to the lives of men who live on the outskirts of the city and of Japanese society.
Central Asia and Far East
Alternative culture
Urban
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
This is a trilogy about aspects of the culture of two groups of people, the Kwegu and the Mursi, in Ethiopia. The titles are: THE MURSI , THE KWEGU, THE MIGRANTS *What made this trilogy special
North America
Social Change
Socioeconomic conditions
Health / Health care / Healing
In Search of Home
2000
30
‘
Directed by
Julie Moggan
.
The Shabani family have been living in Manchester as refugees and are homesick for Kosovo. Feeling increasingly unwelcome in Britain, they return home to confront the nightmares of their recent past,
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Children / Young people
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
In a State of Dress
2010
21
‘
Directed by
Madelief de Heer
.
Filmed in Walcheren, a region in the south-west of the Netherlands, this film tells of the lived experience of wearing regional dress. Once worn by the whole community, today this complex attire is
Western Europe
Material Culture
Elderly people
Intergenerational relations
The Internet Bride
2004
29
‘
Directed by
Ellie Ford
.
Cali in Colombia is celebrated for salsa music and beautiful women and is also the base of the Internet Bride agency, ‘Latin Best’ with 900 women on its files. Accompanying the British and American
South America
Marriage
Internet
Into the Field
2005
28
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘Into the Field’ follows the everyday “secular” lives of nuns in a Orthodox nunnery in Romania. Documenting the nuns’ activities, relationships and roles within their community, the film also
South-East Europe
Religion / Belief / Faith
Animation
IntranQu’îllités
2019
20
‘
Directed by
Edward Owles
.
Lyrically narrated by award-winning Haitian poet James Noël, the short film interweaves the work of several Haitian artists who want to redefine how their nation is perceived. The film explores the
Caribbean Islands
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
Nationalism
Social Organisation