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Films
5 Films
with a digital version available
x
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Family Kinship”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
5
x
short films
5
x
films available on demand
1
Region
Caribbean Islands
1
North America
1
Scandinavia
1
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Anguilla
1
China
1
Cyprus
1
Denmark
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United States
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
2
Family / Kinship
5
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
LGBTQI*
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Reproduction (biology)
1
Sex / Sexuality
3
Social Change
1
Directors
Cai, Hua
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Series
not set
5
x
Country of production
China
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
4
Year of production
1985
1
1995
1
2012
1
2016
2
Film list
Extended Family
2016
31
‘
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Guest
2012
20
‘
Student
Directed by
Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen
.
Following the personal story of a Danish first-time surrogate mother, ‘The Guest’ explores issues of maternal bonding, modern families, relatedness, and desired control over body and mind. We follow
Scandinavia
LGBTQI*
Sex / Sexuality
Reproduction (biology)
Family / Kinship
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
Treasured Moments
2016
33
‘
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality