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Films
87 Films
Country of production
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4
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Agriculture / Farming
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3
Animals
4
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
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2
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2
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10
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7
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
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6
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3
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
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2
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1
Ethnofiction
1
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3
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3
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1
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2
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2
Gender Role and Identity
6
Gender Role and identity
1
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6
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History of Anthropology
3
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1
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5
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1
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1
Inter-religious relations
1
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1
LGBTQI*
2
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2
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2
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3
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Life Story/ Life History
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1
Love
2
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3
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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
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1
Socioeconomic conditions
7
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4
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3
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3
Trade
3
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3
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4
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7
Directors
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beier, Ulli
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Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Blake, John
1
Bringa, Tone
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Bringas, Sylvie
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Campbell, Karlia
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
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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
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Longinotto, Kim
3
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
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MacDonald, Caro
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Marin, Nadja
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Meriwether, Maria
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Milling, Julie
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Mollona, Massimiliano
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Moser, Brian
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Musleh, Hanna
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Navarro Smith, Alejandra
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Nicolau, João
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Okojie, Paul
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Owen, Chris
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Owles, Edward
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Paterek, Austin
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Pollack, Claire
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Pratt, Helen
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Ross, Nina
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Savage, Rebecca
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Schiltz, Anne
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Schlenker, Juana
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Schäuble, Michaela
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Singer, André
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Sjøberg, Johannes
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Sowa, Remigiusz
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Speed, Frank
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Stefani, Fotini
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Thomas Allen, Christopher
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Torresan, Angela
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Vinken, Polly
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Vybiral, James
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Webster, Rachel
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Werbner, Richard
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Williams, Stacey
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Yezbick, Julia
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Youngstein, Theo
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de Bromhead, Toni
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Series
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
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Disappearing World Series
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
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Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
National Film and Television School
2
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
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Shorts collection 2
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Strangers Abroad
2
Sudan Trilogy
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
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not set
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Canada
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Ghana
1
Indonesia
1
Nigeria
2
Sweden
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Year of production
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1975
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1979
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1981
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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Film list
Talking to Each Other
1985
52
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
The third film of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon,
Western Europe
British-Irish Isles
Rural
Socioeconomic conditions
The Temple in the Sea
2008
26
‘
Directed by
Theo Youngstein
.
‘The Temple in the Sea’ looks at ritual and religious practice at a well-known Hindu shrine and its associated cremation grounds in Central Trinidad. Documenting the daily life of the Temple, and
Caribbean Islands
Ritual
Tenonde’i – a Beautiful Future
2008
30
‘
Directed by
Nadja Marin
.
In a village inside the world’s fifth largest and tough city, São Paulo, a young Guaraní created a children’s choir to raise money for his community. Filled with beautiful sounds, the film is a
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Children / Young people
Theatre Girls
1979
57
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Pollack
.
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any
British-Irish Isles
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Gender Role and Identity
There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle
2012
78
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Bringas
Dul Johnson
.
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and
West Africa
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
They Say We’re All Winners
2002
32
‘
Directed by
Mari Finnestad
.
The Zimbabwean girls’ team comes to Norway to take part in the world’s largest kids’ football tournament. The film questions the outcome of this well-intentioned cultural exchange because some of the
Scandinavia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Sport
Collective / Community identity
The Thompsons
1996
29
‘
Directed by
Andy Lawrence
.
In 1996 the troubles in Northern Ireland continued to the sound of beating drums and marching feet. This is the story of a Protestant family in rural Ulster and their fight to remain British and free from Irish rule.
British-Irish Isles
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Those Who Don’t Work Don’t Make Love
1998
30
‘
Directed by
Cristina Grasseni
.
An observational documentary about dairy farmers in the Italian Alps. Caught between pride for tradition and the pressure for modernisation, the story of one family is told through the eyes of
Western Mediterranean
Agriculture / Farming
Social Change
Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village
2001
31
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Directed by
Henriette Levaulx-Vrecourt
.
In Tia village, in an isolated area of Ladakh – North West India – lives an amchi (a local herbal doctor) and his wife. It is summer – a short season in the Indian Himalayas and the only period of
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
A Tibetan New Year
1987
45
‘
Directed by
Jon Jerstad
.
This outstanding documentary is placed in Northern India among a group of Tibetan refugees. They celebrate the New Year, following a ritual of their religion, Bonpo, which is older than Buddhism.
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Tiempo de Vals
2006
22
‘
Directed by
Rebecca Savage
.
The ‘Quinceañera’ celebration is a lived illusion. A daydream shared by the whole community of Tetlanohcan, a rapidly urbanising agricultural town in Tlaxcala, Central Mexico. The dream is
Central America
Festivals / Carnival
Social Change
A Town in Sicily
2015
120
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to
South-East Europe
Political Activists
Transfiction
2007
58
‘
Directed by
Johannes Sjøberg
.
Transfiction explores ‘ethnofiction’ – an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others’ life experiences
South America
Reflexivity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
LGBTQI*
Ethnofiction
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
Tuktu
1985
47
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this
North America
Animals
Social Change
Two Ears, One Mouth
1999
25
‘
Directed by
Andy Benfield
.
Duncan Williamson is of Traveller descent and lives in Scotland, Amy Douglas is fifty years younger and lives in Cheshire. But they share a love for telling stories and both manage to make a living
British-Irish Isles
Travellers / Roma
Art / Artists / Artisans