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Films
135 Films
Series
“Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film”
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“National Film and Television School”
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O
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P
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Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
30
Caribbean Islands
3
Central America
6
Central Asia and Far East
7
Central Europe
2
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
1
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
4
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
2
Scandinavia
5
South America
14
South Asia
9
South-East Asia
4
South-East Europe
8
Southern Africa
5
West Africa
6
Western Europe
10
Western Mediterranean
8
Country
Australia
1
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1
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1
Brazil
5
Canada
1
Cape Verde
1
Chile
1
China
3
Colombia
2
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1
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3
Ecuador
1
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1
France
2
Germany
4
Ghana
2
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3
Greenland
1
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1
Guinea-Bissau
1
Hungary
1
India
7
Indonesia
1
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1
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1
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2
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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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3
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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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2
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1
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2
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3
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3
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1
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4
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2
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1
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1
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1
Sweden
1
Syria
1
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
United Kingdom
30
United States
7
Venezuela
2
Yemen
1
not set
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
5
Alternative culture
15
Animals
10
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Archival material / Museum displays
2
Art / Artists / Artisans
5
Children / Young people
13
Collective / Community identity
6
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
5
Death
3
Development projects
6
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
2
Education / Knowledge transmission
4
Elderly people
4
Environment
2
Ethnofiction
1
Family / Kinship
3
Festivals / Carnival
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
3
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
7
Health / Health care / Healing
7
Herding
1
History
1
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
4
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
7
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
7
Internet
1
Labour
5
Land Rights
3
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
1
Love
2
Marriage
6
Material Culture
4
Memory
5
Migration
7
Music / Ethnomusicology
9
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
2
Post-communism
3
Prison
1
Public Figure
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
2
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4
Religion / Belief / Faith
18
Resistance
2
Ritual
9
Rural
5
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
6
Social Conflict
2
Social Norms
1
Socioeconomic conditions
5
Sport
5
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
7
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
7
Trade
4
Travellers / Roma
4
Urban
8
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
9
Directors
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bolchover, James
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Cole, Sarah
1
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Dineen, Molly
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
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
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Grove-White, Will
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hansen, Anne-Katrine
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Henley, Paul
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Hughes, Richard
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Caro
1
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Milling, Julie
1
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Petropoulou, Irene
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
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
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Willerslev, Rane
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Williams, Stacey
1
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
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Øien, Cecilie
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
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National Film and Television School
10
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Country of production
Austria
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
2
Greece
1
Netherlands
1
Romania
1
United Kingdom
130
United States
3
Venezuela
1
not set
3
Year of production
1982
1
1983
1
1984
2
1985
1
1987
2
1988
1
1989
2
1991
3
1992
4
1993
1
1994
4
1995
4
1996
2
1997
6
1998
6
1999
4
2000
8
2001
7
2002
10
2003
11
2004
7
2005
2
2006
4
2007
6
2008
12
2009
11
2010
11
2011
2
Film list
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
Temporary Sanity: The Skerrit Boy Story
2006
32
‘
Directed by
Dan Bruun
.
This film deals with the culture of Jamaican dancehall music as it exists in New York. It follows one young dancehall participant who makes his living performing and promoting dancehall music.
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Alternative culture
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
Thanks Be to God
2008
31
‘
Directed by
Patrícia Pedrosa
.
Four Christian women work and live in a Muslim and patriarchic world. The ‘Sisters of the Consolata Missionaries’ are building a new library in Empada, a small village in the south of
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
‘
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
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