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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Year of production
“1985”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
3
x
short films
1
Region
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South-East Europe
1
Country
Cyprus
1
Ethiopia
1
United States
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Family / Kinship
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Social Change
3
Directors
Johnston, Graham
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Wason, David
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
1
National Film and Television School
1
not set
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
x
Year of production
1985
3
x
Colour / Black and white
Film list
The Migrants
1985
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
David Wason
.
The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy ‘In Search of Cool Ground’ for Granada Television’s Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional
North and Northeast Africa
Social Change
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
‘
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Tuktu
1985
47
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this
North America
Animals
Social Change