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10
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7
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8
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10
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17
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11
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5
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7
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3
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4
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6
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9
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1
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25
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30
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21
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8
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20
Death
9
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13
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3
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14
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8
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6
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10
Essay film
3
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5
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12
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21
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8
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21
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1
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1
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2
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1
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47
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1
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23
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1
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6
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6
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10
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6
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2
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33
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11
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10
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1
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4
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7
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20
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9
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7
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13
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20
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14
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22
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28
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5
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5
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13
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3
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9
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2
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11
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36
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Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Afreen, Sara
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
2
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1
Banks, Marcus
1
Barbash, Ilisa
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Basu, Helene
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Bloching, Max
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brass, Anna
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Brown, David
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Croall, Heather
1
Curtis, Edward S.
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Davies, Sera
1
Day, Mike
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Deger, Jennifer
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Deveson, Philippa
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Domenig, Aya
1
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Dreiss, Meredith
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Dunlop, Ian
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Engelbrecht, Beate
1
Entell, Peter
1
Esteva, Jordi
2
Fales, Ludovica
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Garland, Christy
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Graham, Trevor
2
Grieco, Anthony
1
Grimshaw, Anna
2
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hawkins, Richard
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Husmann, Rolf
3
Hörmann, André
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Jayasankar, KP
2
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Journet, Martine
2
Kapon, Eytan
1
Kashyap, Kumar
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kharel, Dipesh
3
Kildea, Gary
3
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
Kumar, Shikha
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
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1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levie, Francoise
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Longinotto, Kim
17
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Lydall, Jean
1
Ma, Chi-hang
1
MacDougall, David
22
MacDougall, Judith
13
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
2
Mansu, Marcia
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Meyknecht, Steef
1
Milner, George
1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Monteiro, Anjali
2
Moore, Allen
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Ndinya, June
1
Newman, David
1
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Nielsen, Christian Suhr
1
Niglas, Liivo
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Nougarol, Gérard
2
Opipari, Carmen
1
Ortiz, Carolina Arias
1
Otto, Ton
2
Owen, Chris
2
Owles, Ed
1
O’Brien, Áine
1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Picard, David
1
Plessis, Nancy du
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Powell, Harry
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Roy, Rahul
3
Saito, Asami
1
Saltman, Carlyn
2
Sandall, Roger
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Satija, Dhruv
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Sharma, Aparna
1
Shivhare, Ravi
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Simon, Andrea
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Singer, André
2
Singh, Anshu
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Sojob, María
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sorensen, Richard
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
7
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
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1
Storaas, Frode
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Straube, Anna
1
Strecker, Kaira
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jamie
1
Taylor, Lucien
1
Tender, Priit
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Villafaña Chaparro, Amado
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Waage, Trond
1
Wendl, Tobias
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Werner, Louis
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Williams, Jano
3
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
2
not set
1
van Lanker, Laurent
1
van de Port, Mattijs
3
Östör, Ákos
2
Șalaru, Maria
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
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Argentina
2
Australia
37
Bangladesh
1
Belgium
8
Bolivia
1
Brazil
3
Bulgaria
1
Cameroon
1
Canada
4
Chile
1
China
3
Colombia
3
Costa Rica
1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
4
Egypt
1
Estonia
1
Finland
2
France
12
Germany
16
Hong Kong
1
Hungary
2
Iceland
1
India
21
Indonesia
3
Ireland
1
Italy
10
Jamaica
1
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Kenya
2
Mexico
3
Nepal
1
Netherlands
9
Nigeria
7
Norway
6
Pakistan
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Peru
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
Spain
3
Sweden
2
Switzerland
8
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
99
United States
33
not set
5
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1931
1
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1963
2
1964
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1966
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1969
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1970
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1972
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1973
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1974
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1975
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1979
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1980
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1981
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1982
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1988
7
1989
7
1990
3
1991
3
1992
1
1993
4
1994
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1995
1
1996
3
1997
6
1998
4
1999
3
2000
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2001
9
2002
5
2003
5
2004
3
2005
9
2006
8
2007
10
2008
10
2009
9
2010
7
2011
6
2012
12
2013
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2014
10
2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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Film list
Land of Udehe
2015
26
‘
Student
Directed by
Ivan Golovnev
.
This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010, their population dropped to 1,490 souls…
Central Asia and Far East
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
The Last Navigator
1989
50
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Law and War in Rural Kenya
2010
64
‘
Directed by
Suzette Heald
.
In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with
East Africa
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Leaving Greece
2013
79
‘
Directed by
Anna Brass
.
When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all refugees, the Aegean is the
Western Mediterranean
Children / Young people
Migration
Love
Lessons from Gulam
1986
52
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
A detailed study of musical enculturation within the Asian community of Bradford in northern England. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teacher and as a musician. The film
British-Irish Isles
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Letter to the Dead
2002
62
‘
Directed by
Andre Iteanu
Eytan Kapon
.
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in
Melanesia
Social Change
Art / Artists / Artisans
Death
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
‘
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather’s letters there is a mystery your family doesn’t want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
A Life with Slate
2006
59
‘
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
.
Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them have been
South Asia
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Link-up Diary
1997
86
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The filmmaker goes on the road with Link-Up, an organisation which re-unites Aboriginal families separated in earlier decades by the New South Wales government. As the film shows, being reunited
Australia
Resettlement
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Little Waterfall
2002
52
‘
Directed by
Joshka Wessels
.
Shallalah Saghirah (‘Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat
Middle and Near East
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Development projects
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
Living with the Invisibles
2003
52
‘
Directed by
Dirk Dumont
.
When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” ( caused by the the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, most North
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Migration
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri
2016
29
‘
Material Culture
Directed by
Thomas Horat
.
Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a
Western Europe
Material Culture
Labour
Rural