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Films
608 Films
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Title initial
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films with a digital version
277
films hosted on Kanopy
17
short films
278
films available on demand
69
Title initial
A
24
B
34
C
42
D
33
E
15
F
20
G
24
H
28
I
20
J
8
K
24
L
33
M
35
N
15
O
19
P
23
Q
2
R
23
S
78
T
45
U
15
x
V
10
W
33
Y
5
Region
Australia
21
British-Irish Isles
53
Caribbean Islands
6
Central Africa
3
Central America
17
Central Asia and Far East
42
Central Europe
12
East Africa
18
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
2
Hong Kong
1
Latin America
2
London
1
Melanesia
18
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
25
New Zealand and Polynesia
2
North America
38
North and Northeast Africa
27
Scandinavia
10
South America
53
South Asia
68
South-East Asia
43
South-East Europe
46
Southern Africa
16
Various
10
West Africa
34
Western Europe
41
Western Mediterranean
20
not set
4
Country
Afghanistan
9
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Argentina
1
Australia
21
Austria
6
Bangladesh
3
Belgium
7
Bolivia
3
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Botswana
7
Brazil
18
Bulgaria
2
Burkina Faso
2
Cameroon
6
Canada
4
Cape Verde
1
Chile
2
China
18
Colombia
10
Costa Rica
1
Cote d’Ivoire
1
Croatia
3
Cyprus
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
4
Ecuador
1
Egypt
2
Eritrea
1
Ethiopia
15
Faroe Islands
3
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
11
French Guiana
1
Germany
8
Ghana
8
Greece
7
Greenland
2
Guatemala
2
Guinea-Bissau
1
Guyana
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
3
India
49
Indonesia
27
Iran
3
Ireland
2
Israel
2
Italy
31
Ivory Coast
2
Jamaica
3
Japan
14
Jordan
1
Kenya
11
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Madagascar
1
Malawi
1
Mali
1
Malta
2
Mexico
13
Mongolia
3
Morocco
3
Myanmar
6
Namibia
1
Nepal
8
Netherlands
2
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
9
Norway
3
Pakistan
7
Palestine
3
Papua New Guinea
14
Paraguay
1
Peru
6
Philippines
2
Poland
1
Portugal
4
Puerto Rico
1
Republic of Macedonia
1
Romania
7
Russia
1
Russian Federation
8
Samoa
2
Senegal
3
Sierra Leone
3
Singapore
1
Slovenia
2
Solomon Islands
2
South Africa
4
South Korea
1
Spain
5
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
7
Sweden
2
Switzerland
4
Syria
4
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
1
The Netherlands
3
Tibet
1
Togo
3
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
2
Uganda
4
United Kingdom
56
United States
30
Uzbekistan
1
Vanuatu
1
Various
10
Venezuela
9
Vietnam
1
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
3
not set
9
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
17
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
22
Animals
26
Animation
4
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
7
Archaeology
6
Archival material / Museum displays
15
Archival materials / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
35
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
51
Children/ Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
42
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
15
Dance / Theatre / Performance
29
Death
18
Development projects
20
Digital media
1
Disasters
5
Education / Knowledge Transmission
20
Education / Knowledge transmission
14
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
10
Environment
14
Essay film
3
Ethnofiction
6
Everyday Life
29
Family / Kinship
33
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
53
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
27
Folklore
39
Food
4
Food / Water
7
Forensic
1
Gender Role and Identity
66
Gender Role and identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
41
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
18
History
10
History of Anthropology
20
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
16
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
8
Indigenous Filmmaking
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
50
Informant-researcher relationship
15
Infrastructure / Transport
13
Infrastructure/transport
1
Infrastructure\transport
1
Inter-religious relations
9
Intergenerational relations
16
Internet
4
LGBTQI*
7
Labour
30
Land Rights
21
Land rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
15
Life Story / Life History
9
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
6
Love
11
Marriage
28
Material Culture
26
Memory
22
Migration
33
Music / Ethnomusicology
38
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Myths / Fairy tales
2
Myths/ Fairy tales
1
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
15
Participatory / Collaborative methods
7
Personal Narrative
8
Political Activists
19
Popular Culture
5
Possession
14
Post-communism
7
Prison
3
Public Figure
13
Race / Racism / Antiracism
12
Reflexivity
19
Refugees / Displaced populations
21
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
71
Reproduction (biology)
6
Research Methods
1
Research methods
1
Resettlement
5
Resistance
8
Ritual
72
Rural
37
Science / Technology
1
Sensory Ethnography
1
Sex / Sexuality
15
Shamans and Shamanism
10
Social Change
47
Social Conflict
21
Social Norms
5
Social Organisation
16
Social participation
2
Socioeconomic conditions
25
Sport
10
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
14
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
20
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
2
Trade
20
Travellers / Roma
6
Urban
24
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
29
not set
2
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Afreen, Sara
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Asch, Patsy
9
Asch, Timothy
9
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Awino, Effie
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
Balanydjarrk, Meredith
1
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
2
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Balpatji, Warren
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Barbash, Ilisa
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Baskin Coffey, Victoria
1
Basu, Helene
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Blake, John
2
Bloching, Max
1
Bolchover, James
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brandão, Joana
1
Brass, Anna
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Brown, David
1
Bruun, Dan
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Cao, Umberto
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Cole, Sarah
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Connor, Linda
5
Contreras, Elisa
1
Contreras, Isis
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Croall, Heather
1
Cross, Stephen
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Curling, Chris
5
Curtis, Edward S.
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Davies, Sera
1
Day, Mike
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Defersha, Eyob
1
Deger, Jennifer
2
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Deveson, Philippa
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Djingadjingawuy, Kayleen
1
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
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engelbrecht, Beate
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Entell, Peter
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Esteva, Jordi
2
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
2
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Flores, Carlos
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Ford, Ellie
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Fox, J.
1
Fox, James J.
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
French, Dominic
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Ganambarr, James
1
Gao, Ang
1
Garland, Christy
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Graham, Trevor
2
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Griggs, David
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grimshaw, Anna
13
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Gurrumuruwuy, Paul
1
Guruŋulmiwuy, Enid
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián
1
Haddis, Tesfahun
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hansen, Anne-Katrine
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
Hawkins, Russel
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
6
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Hertog, Ester
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Htway, Aung Nwai
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Husmann, Rolf
3
Huysmans, Carla
1
Hörmann, André
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Jayasankar, KP
2
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Johnston, Ned
1
Journet, Martine
2
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kapon, Eytan
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kashyap, Kumar
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kezich, Giovanni
1
Kharel, Dipesh
3
Kildea, Gary
3
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
Kumar, Shikha
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lappalainen, Heimo
3
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
2
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
2
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Levie, Francoise
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Longinotto, Kim
17
Lopes, André
1
Lowe, Sebastian
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Lwin, Kyaw Myo
1
Lydall, Jean
2
Ma, Chi-hang
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
30
MacDougall, Judith
16
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
1
Magaña, Jaime
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
2
Mansu, Marcia
1
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Meyknecht, Steef
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
Monahan, Trent
1
Monteiro, Anjali
2
Moore, Allen
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Moser, Brian
7
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Nairn, Charlie
5
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Ndinya, June
1
Newman, David
1
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Nicolau, João
1
Nielsen, Christian Suhr
1
Niglas, Liivo
1
Nitzky, William
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Nougarol, Gérard
2
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Oo, Zaw Naing
1
Opipari, Carmen
1
Ortiz, Carolina Arias
1
Otto, Ton
2
Owen, Chris
2
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
O’Brien, Áine
1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Petropoulou, Irene
1
Picard, David
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Plessis, Nancy du
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Powell, Harry
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Rasmussen, Ulla
2
Rasmussen, Ulla Boje
1
Ravetz, Amanda
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Richter, Thomas
1
Rivero Uicab, Carlos R.
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
4
Roy, Rahul
3
Saito, Asami
1
Saltman, Carlyn
2
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Satija, Dhruv
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Seaman, Gary
4
Seitz, Anni
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Sharma, Aparna
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Shivhare, Ravi
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Simon, Andrea
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Singer, André
17
Singh, Anshu
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Sojob, María
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Song, Zhifang
4
Sorensen, Richard
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
7
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Storaas, Frode
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Straube, Anna
1
Strecker, Ivo
1
Strecker, Kaira
2
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jamie
1
Taylor, Lucien
1
Tender, Priit
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Vella, Steve
1
Villafaña Chaparro, Amado
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vischer, Michael P.
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vybiral, James
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Waage, Trond
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Wason, David
5
Webster, Rachel
1
Wendl, Tobias
1
Werbner, Richard
10
Werner, Louis
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Jano
3
Williams, Stacey
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Wright, Evie
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Xu, Beina
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
6
not set
1
van Lanker, Laurent
1
van de Port, Mattijs
3
Östör, Ákos
2
Øien, Cecilie
1
Șalaru, Maria
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
12
Ambulante Beyond
3
Carnival King of Europe
38
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
4
Disappearing World Series
54
Doon School Project
5
Forbidden Rites
3
George’s Place
2
George’s Place: A seven part film series
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
126
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
3
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
5
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods
4
National Film and Television School
10
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
4
Strangers Abroad
6
Sudan Trilogy
3
Taiga Nomads
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
8
Turkana Conversations
3
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
3
Yangon Film School
3
not set
278
Country of production
Argentina
2
Australia
59
Austria
1
Bangladesh
1
Belgium
8
Bolivia
1
Brazil
3
Bulgaria
1
Cameroon
1
Canada
5
Chile
1
China
8
Colombia
4
Costa Rica
1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
9
Egypt
1
Estonia
1
Ethiopia
4
Finland
5
France
13
Germany
25
Greece
2
Hong Kong
1
Hungary
2
Iceland
1
India
21
Indonesia
4
Ireland
1
Italy
47
Jamaica
1
Japan
5
Jordan
1
Kenya
2
Mexico
6
Myanmar
3
Nepal
1
Netherlands
10
Nigeria
7
Norway
6
Pakistan
2
Papua New Guinea
1
Peru
1
Portugal
1
Romania
2
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Singapore
1
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
South Korea
1
Spain
3
Sweden
2
Switzerland
8
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
316
United States
57
Uzbekistan
1
Venezuela
1
not set
9
Year of production
not set
1
1931
1
1952
1
1963
2
1964
1
1966
1
1969
1
1970
3
1971
3
1972
4
1973
4
1974
9
1975
5
1976
3
1977
7
1978
2
1979
4
1980
8
1981
2
1982
5
1983
12
1984
6
1985
7
1986
10
1987
9
1988
12
1989
13
1990
7
1991
10
1992
11
1993
8
1994
6
1995
5
1996
7
1997
12
1998
11
1999
11
2000
17
2001
18
2002
15
2003
17
2004
12
2005
11
2006
13
2007
17
2008
26
2009
27
2010
23
2011
16
2012
16
2013
16
2014
18
2015
20
2016
22
2017
17
2018
17
2019
21
2020
22
2021
2
2022
1
Film list
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
2006
85
‘
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
.
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives
Middle and Near East
Film / Photography / Mass media
Animals
Migration
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
‘
Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
.
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict
Umbanda
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Stephen Cross
.
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it,
South America
Possession
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Uncanny Strangers
2009
46
‘
Directed by
David Picard
.
Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the
East Africa
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Development projects
Environment
Uncle Poison
1998
60
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day,
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Under the Palace Wall
2013
53
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel – a
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Unity through Culture
2011
69
‘
Directed by
Christian Suhr
Ton Otto
.
Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organizes the
Melanesia
Festivals / Carnival
Social Conflict
Collective / Community identity
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra
2016
37
‘
Directed by
Mara Lin Visser
.
This is a film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. African printed fabrics seem to making a comeback in the fashion system of Accra. While following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife
West Africa
Trade
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Unravel
2012
14
‘
Directed by
Meghna Gupta
.
‘Unravel’ follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world
South Asia
Labour
Material Culture
Collective / Community identity
Untouched Rock
2008
28
‘
Directed by
James Vybiral
.
‘Untouched Rock’ follows a British climbing expedition to Greenland where six young men hope to establish new routes on the mountains of ‘the un-named valley’.
North America
Children / Young people
Sport
Unwritten Letters
2020
59
‘
Directed by
Max Bloching
Abd Alrahman Dukmak
.
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten
South-East Europe
Middle and Near East
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Story / Life History
Usch in the Bush
2001
32
‘
Directed by
Michaela Schäuble
.
In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been
West Africa
Personal Narrative
Alternative culture
Ustad Rahim
2008
55
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician,
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Personal Narrative
Uzu
2015
27
‘
Directed by
Gaspard Kuentz
.
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama, the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Gender Role and Identity