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8
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1
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1
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3
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3
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4
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1
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6
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2
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7
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1
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1
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7
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Agriculture / Farming
4
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1
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7
Animation
1
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2
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2
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5
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5
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2
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7
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1
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7
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5
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1
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3
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5
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7
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1
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4
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4
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1
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1
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1
Gender Role and Identity
8
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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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5
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1
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1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
9
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2
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1
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2
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4
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2
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2
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6
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1
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1
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2
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1
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2
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6
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3
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6
Music / Ethnomusicology
5
Music/ Ethnomusicology
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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3
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2
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1
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8
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3
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1
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16
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5
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1
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1
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4
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4
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7
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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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6
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2
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Contreras, Isis
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Drion, Georges
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Gao, Ang
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harrison, Ross
1
Henley, Paul
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Hörmann, André
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Magaña, Jaime
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Nitzky, William
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rivero Uicab, Carlos R.
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
4
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seaman, Gary
4
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Song, Zhifang
4
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
7
Straube, Anna
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Werner, Louis
1
Xu, Beina
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
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1
Series
Ambulante Beyond
3
National Film and Television School
4
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
4
not set
56
Country of production
Australia
1
China
7
Egypt
1
France
1
Germany
3
Iceland
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
2
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Mexico
5
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
6
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Peru
1
Russia
1
Singapore
1
Slovenia
1
South Korea
1
Switzerland
3
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
39
United States
11
Uzbekistan
1
not set
1
Year of production
1931
1
1963
2
1964
1
1966
1
1970
1
1975
1
1982
1
1983
3
1984
1
1985
1
1987
2
1988
2
1990
1
1991
1
1995
1
1996
2
1999
1
2000
1
2003
1
2004
2
2006
3
2007
1
2008
1
2009
5
2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
5
2014
4
2015
6
2016
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2018
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2019
9
2020
8
Film list
Bang the Drum
2020
28
‘
Directed by
William Nitzky
.
For the Yao minority in rural southwest China, the bronze drum is a sacred heritage. Its sound aids the souls of deceased elders in reaching the ancestral land. When the Chinese government steps in
Central Asia and Far East
Music/ Ethnomusicology
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
Rural
Shamans and Shamanism
Benin Kingship Rituals
1963
20
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Ray Bradbury
.
Until it was conquered by the British in 1897, the city of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was the centre of a powerful kingdom. Its rulers, the Obas of Benin, were mysterious, secluded figures who
West Africa
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
History
Between Memories
2015
34
‘
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the
South America
Memory
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Boya Boya (Shine Shine)
2014
18
‘
Directed by
Karen Boswall
Ruba Al Akash
.
A portrait of Syrian refugee Mohammed, a 12-year-old shoe shine boy, ‘Boya Boya (Shine Shine)’ looks at the reality of the growing population of urban refugees from a child’s point of view. While
Middle and Near East
Children / Young people
Refugees / Displaced populations
Labour
Breeding Cells
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Anna Straube
.
Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There
Western Europe
Reproduction (biology)
Science / Technology