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14
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21
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21
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10
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9
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6
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2
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9
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4
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3
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5
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3
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13
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10
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42
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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
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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
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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
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1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
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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
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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
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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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1
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1
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1
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1
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7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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1
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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
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1
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3
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1
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1
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4
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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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1
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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
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1
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1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
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1
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1
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1
Trentini, Michele
38
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
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1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
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1
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
3
Werner, Louis
1
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1
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1
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1
Xu, Beina
1
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1
Youngstein, Theo
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
not set
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van de Port, Mattijs
1
Östör, Ákos
2
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
4
Carnival King of Europe
38
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
4
Disappearing World Series
2
Doon School Project
2
George’s Place
2
George’s Place: A seven part film series
5
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
44
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
2
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
5
Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods
4
National Film and Television School
2
Pleasure Shorts
3
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
3
Strangers Abroad
3
Sudan Trilogy
1
Taiga Nomads
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
Turkana Conversations
1
Western Outposts – Faroese Cinematic Narratives
1
not set
93
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Australia
26
Belgium
3
Brazil
2
Canada
1
China
5
Colombia
1
Costa Rica
1
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1
Denmark
3
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
4
Finland
2
France
4
Germany
12
Ghana
1
Greece
1
Iceland
1
India
8
Indonesia
2
Italy
40
Jamaica
1
Japan
4
Kenya
1
Mexico
1
Netherlands
4
Nigeria
3
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
Spain
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
Taiwan
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
87
United States
34
Uzbekistan
1
not set
3
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not set
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1963
1
1964
1
1969
1
1972
1
1973
2
1974
1
1975
1
1976
1
1978
2
1979
1
1980
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1981
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1982
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1983
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1984
3
1985
5
1986
6
1987
2
1988
3
1989
3
1991
3
1992
3
1993
2
1994
2
1995
3
1996
3
1997
1
1998
3
1999
4
2000
2
2001
8
2002
4
2003
3
2004
5
2005
5
2006
3
2007
3
2008
12
2009
12
2010
8
2011
9
2012
6
2013
9
2014
11
2015
9
2016
10
2017
11
2018
9
2019
14
2020
20
2021
2
2022
1
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Film list
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
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
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
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