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Films
87 Films
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Festival Prize Category
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films hosted on Kanopy
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short films
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Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
12
Caribbean Islands
2
Central America
3
Central Asia and Far East
5
Central Europe
1
Melanesia
3
Middle and Near East
5
North America
6
North and Northeast Africa
1
Scandinavia
4
South America
7
South Asia
9
South-East Asia
4
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6
Southern Africa
5
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2
West Africa
9
Western Europe
5
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Country
Afghanistan
2
Australia
1
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1
Botswana
3
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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2
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1
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3
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
India
5
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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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1
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3
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1
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1
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3
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4
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1
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1
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2
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3
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1
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1
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2
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1
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2
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1
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1
Sweden
1
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1
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
United Kingdom
12
United States
4
Various
2
Venezuela
2
not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
3
Animals
4
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
Archival material / Museum displays
2
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
10
Collective / Community identity
7
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
3
Death
4
Development projects
6
Education / Knowledge Transmission
3
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Elderly people
2
Environment
1
Ethnofiction
1
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
3
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
6
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
6
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History of Anthropology
3
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
5
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Inter-religious relations
1
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
2
Labour
2
Land Rights
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
3
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Love
2
Marriage
3
Memory
1
Migration
4
Music / Ethnomusicology
8
Nationalism
1
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
5
Post-communism
1
Public Figure
3
Race / Racism / Antiracism
2
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
5
Religion / Belief / Faith
16
Resistance
2
Ritual
5
Rural
3
Sex / Sexuality
2
Social Change
7
Social Conflict
2
Social Organisation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
7
Sport
4
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
3
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
3
Trade
3
Travellers / Roma
3
Urban
4
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
7
Directors
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Blake, John
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Griggs, David
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Howes, Arthur
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Longinotto, Kim
3
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Milling, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Moser, Brian
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Edward
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Ross, Nina
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Singer, André
3
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
2
Stefani, Fotini
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
3
Williams, Stacey
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
4
Series
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
43
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
National Film and Television School
2
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
2
Sudan Trilogy
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
25
Country of production
Canada
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
1
Nigeria
2
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
87
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United States
3
Year of production
1964
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1974
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1975
1
1979
1
1981
1
1984
1
1985
5
1986
2
1987
2
1988
2
1989
2
1991
1
1992
1
1993
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1994
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
6
2002
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2003
2
2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
3
2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Ragged Ones
2002
30
‘
Directed by
David Griggs
.
The Basotho live in Lesotho, a kingdom of high mountains surrounded by South Africa. Afflicted by famine, poverty and AIDS, they carry on making a science out of their witchcraft beliefs.
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Socioeconomic conditions
Raised by Humans
2010
25
‘
Directed by
Karlia Campbell
.
‘Raised by Humans’ follows two dogs with difficult life histories as volunteers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals try to find families to adopt them in Stockport,
British-Irish Isles
Animals
Development projects
Raju and His Friends
1988
40
‘
Directed by
Marcus Banks
.
This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a
South Asia
Urban
Informant-researcher relationship
Life Story / Life History
Ravi and Bhajay
2002
26
‘
Directed by
Rachel Webster
.
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with the film-maker. But the call of life on the streets is still strong.
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Urban
Read Me
2008
29
‘
Directed by
Janina Kriszio
.
Reading traditionally played an important role for German (self-)identification. In 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils are lacking basic reading skills, giving rise to
Western Europe
Education / Knowledge transmission
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
The Red Bowmen
1981
50
‘
Directed by
Chris Owen
.
In a remote part of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, the Umeda people eke out a difficult living from the sago swamps and primary rain forest that surround them. Until recently, these
Melanesia
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
History of Anthropology
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
‘
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
Rock ‘n’ Pray
2001
24
‘
Directed by
Fotini Stefani
.
The monks from the monastery of Saints Augustine and Serapheim Sarow on mainland Greece have found modern ways to appeal to young people. The film explores how their traditional life co-exists with
South-East Europe
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations
Rough Aunties
2008
103
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
Southern Africa
Socioeconomic conditions
Children / Young people
Development projects
Round Trip
1999
36
‘
Directed by
Angela Torresan
.
Portrait of a Brazilian woman and her friends, now living in Lisbon, exploring the basis of their sense of identity in the context of a transnational way of life.
Western Mediterranean
Collective / Community identity
Migration