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Films
4 Films
with a digital version available
x
Country
“Papua New Guinea”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
4
x
short films
2
Region
Melanesia
4
Country
Papua New Guinea
4
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Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
2
Death
1
Everyday Life
2
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Kapon, Eytan
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Powell, Harry
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Series
not set
4
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Country of production
France
1
Slovenia
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1952
1
1988
1
2002
1
2008
1
Film list
Enet Yapai – an Ambonwari Girl
2008
25
‘
Directed by
Daniela Vávrová
.
Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and
Melanesia
Children / Young people
Rural
Everyday Life
Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea
1988
25
‘
Directed by
Ariane Lewis
Jon Jerstad
.
A detailed account of domestic life in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea, mainly from the women’s point of view. It describes their everyday activities in the ‘gardens’ in order to produce
Melanesia
Agriculture / Farming
Children / Young people
Ritual
Letter to the Dead
2002
62
‘
Directed by
Andre Iteanu
Eytan Kapon
.
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in
Melanesia
Social Change
Art / Artists / Artisans
Death
The Trobriand Islanders
1952
58
‘
Directed by
Harry Powell
.
During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting
Melanesia
Everyday Life