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36
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2
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13
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2
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1
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10
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1
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4
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7
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1
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2
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8
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3
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10
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2
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1
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2
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3
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2
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2
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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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2
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1
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4
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17
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11
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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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2
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5
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2
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3
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7
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3
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4
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6
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9
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1
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25
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30
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21
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8
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20
Death
9
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13
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3
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14
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8
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6
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10
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3
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5
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12
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21
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8
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21
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1
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1
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2
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1
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47
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1
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23
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1
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6
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6
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10
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6
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2
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33
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11
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10
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1
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4
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7
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2
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6
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20
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9
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13
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7
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7
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13
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20
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14
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22
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28
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2
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5
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5
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13
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3
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9
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2
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11
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36
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Directors
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Afreen, Sara
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Al Akash, Ruba
1
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1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Asch, Timothy
1
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1
Atieno, Lavine
1
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1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
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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
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Bloching, Max
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brass, Anna
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Brown, David
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Croall, Heather
1
Curtis, Edward S.
1
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Davies, Sera
1
Day, Mike
1
De Groof, Matthias
2
Deger, Jennifer
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Deveson, Philippa
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
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
Eaton, Michael
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Engelbrecht, Beate
1
Entell, Peter
1
Esteva, Jordi
2
Fales, Ludovica
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Garland, Christy
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Graham, Trevor
2
Grieco, Anthony
1
Grimshaw, Anna
2
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Gómez Ruíz, Sebastián
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hawkins, Richard
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Heusch, Luc de
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
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1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
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1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
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1
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1
Husmann, Rolf
3
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1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
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2
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1
Jerstad, Jon
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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3
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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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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
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3
Longinotto, Kim
17
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Lydall, Jean
1
Ma, Chi-hang
1
MacDougall, David
22
MacDougall, Judith
13
Mafundikwa, Karen Marks
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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1
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1
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2
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1
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1
Mora, Yves
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
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
Njoki, Ruth
1
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2
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1
Ortiz, Carolina Arias
1
Otto, Ton
2
Owen, Chris
2
Owles, Ed
1
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1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
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1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Picard, David
1
Plessis, Nancy du
1
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1
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1
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1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Roy, Rahul
3
Saito, Asami
1
Saltman, Carlyn
2
Sandall, Roger
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
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1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seitz, Anni
1
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1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
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
Singh, Anshu
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
Speed, Frank
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
Suhr, Christian
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jamie
1
Taylor, Lucien
1
Tender, Priit
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Villafaña Chaparro, Amado
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Waage, Trond
1
Wendl, Tobias
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Werner, Louis
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Williams, Jano
3
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Wunungmurra, Paul
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
2
not set
1
van Lanker, Laurent
1
van de Port, Mattijs
3
Östör, Ákos
2
Șalaru, Maria
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
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278
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Argentina
2
Australia
37
Bangladesh
1
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8
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1
Brazil
3
Bulgaria
1
Cameroon
1
Canada
4
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1
China
3
Colombia
3
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1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
4
Egypt
1
Estonia
1
Finland
2
France
12
Germany
16
Hong Kong
1
Hungary
2
Iceland
1
India
21
Indonesia
3
Ireland
1
Italy
10
Jamaica
1
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Kenya
2
Mexico
3
Nepal
1
Netherlands
9
Nigeria
7
Norway
6
Pakistan
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Peru
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
Spain
3
Sweden
2
Switzerland
8
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
99
United States
33
not set
5
Year of production
1931
1
1952
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1963
2
1964
1
1966
1
1969
1
1970
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1972
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1973
1
1974
3
1975
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1976
1
1977
1
1978
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1979
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1980
4
1981
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1982
1
1983
5
1984
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1985
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1986
4
1987
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1988
7
1989
7
1990
3
1991
3
1992
1
1993
4
1994
2
1995
1
1996
3
1997
6
1998
4
1999
3
2000
6
2001
9
2002
5
2003
5
2004
3
2005
9
2006
8
2007
10
2008
10
2009
9
2010
7
2011
6
2012
12
2013
10
2014
10
2015
15
2016
17
2017
9
2018
12
2019
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Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change
Ymako
1998
52
‘
Directed by
Laurent Van Lancker
Robin Shuffield
.
Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Health / Health care / Healing
Social participation
Youth Group
2015
28
‘
Student
Directed by
Wanwan Lu
.
Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant
North America
Collective / Community identity
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations