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RAI FILM

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Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis. 2015 29‘

Intangible Culture Directed by Umberto Cao Andrea Mura .

Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, ‘launeddas’ are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in

Western Mediterranean Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Intergenerational relations

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Other Europe 2011 75‘

Directed by Rossella Schillaci .

What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled,

Western Mediterranean Migration Urban Squatter Settlements / Homelessness

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Ghetto PSA 2016 15‘

Special Interest Directed by Rossella Schillaci .

Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not

Western Europe Music / Ethnomusicology Migration Education / Knowledge Transmission

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Sea Boundary 2012 55‘

Directed by Rosella Schillaci .

The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the

Western Mediterranean Labour Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Socioeconomic conditions Migration

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Breaking the Chains 2015 64‘

Student Directed by Erminia Colucci .

The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and

South-East Asia Prison Health / Health care / Healing Political Activists Development projects

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Fatuma and Asya. Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia 2014 59‘

Directed by Francesco Sincich .

Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to

West Africa Gender Role and Identity Marriage Children / Young people Rural

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Shepherds in the Cave 2016 87‘

Material Culture Directed by Anthony Grieco .

An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges

Western Mediterranean Archaeology Herding Art / Artists / Artisans Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy