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Films
147 Films
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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short films
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films available on demand
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A
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B
9
C
11
D
5
E
4
F
2
G
5
H
11
I
5
J
1
K
14
L
8
M
15
N
4
O
2
P
2
Q
1
R
5
S
15
T
11
U
5
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V
1
W
6
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
12
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
1
Central Asia and Far East
7
Central Europe
1
East Africa
7
London
1
Melanesia
6
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
10
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
12
Scandinavia
1
South America
21
South Asia
15
South-East Asia
11
South-East Europe
5
Southern Africa
2
Various
6
West Africa
11
Western Europe
5
Western Mediterranean
3
Country
Afghanistan
8
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Brazil
7
Cameroon
1
Canada
2
China
4
Colombia
3
Cyprus
1
Denmark
1
Ethiopia
6
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
1
Ghana
2
Guatemala
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
India
6
Indonesia
8
Iran
1
Italy
1
Jordan
1
Kenya
5
Madagascar
1
Mongolia
2
Morocco
1
Myanmar
2
Nepal
3
Nigeria
7
Pakistan
4
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
5
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Romania
1
Russian Federation
1
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
1
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
1
Spain
2
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
The Netherlands
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
15
United States
6
Various
6
Venezuela
3
not set
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
6
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Animals
11
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
7
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
6
Collective / Community identity
16
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
9
Death
3
Development projects
5
Education / Knowledge Transmission
4
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly people
1
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
2
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
9
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
9
Film / Photography / Mass media
9
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
16
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
10
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
9
History
4
History of Anthropology
8
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
9
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
13
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
4
Labour
7
Land Rights
9
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Marriage
6
Material Culture
3
Memory
4
Migration
5
Music / Ethnomusicology
13
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
6
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
1
Possession
3
Post-communism
2
Prison
1
Public Figure
3
Race / Racism / Antiracism
2
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
11
Religion / Belief / Faith
23
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
33
Rural
8
Sex / Sexuality
5
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
22
Social Conflict
10
Social Norms
2
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
7
Trade
3
Travellers / Roma
1
Urban
5
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
15
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Baily, John
10
Banks, Marcus
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Blake, John
2
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Cross, Stephen
1
Curling, Chris
5
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Moser, Brian
7
Nairn, Charlie
5
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Picard, David
1
Powell, Harry
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Ross, Nina
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
14
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Taylor, Jamie
1
Wason, David
5
Werbner, Richard
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Yorke, Michael
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
3
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
69
Country of production
Australia
1
Brazil
1
India
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
Jordan
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
147
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United States
5
Year of production
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
7
1975
5
1976
1
1977
5
1979
3
1980
2
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
3
1986
4
1987
9
1988
8
1989
9
1990
4
1991
4
1993
3
1996
2
1998
1
1999
4
2001
2
2003
2
2004
1
2005
2
2006
3
2007
4
2008
4
2009
2
2010
4
2011
2
2012
3
2013
1
2014
2
2015
4
2016
2
2018
1
2019
3
2020
2
2021
2
Colour / Black and white
Film list
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
2006
85
‘
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
.
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives
Middle and Near East
Film / Photography / Mass media
Animals
Migration
Umbanda
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Stephen Cross
.
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it,
South America
Possession
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Uncanny Strangers
2009
46
‘
Directed by
David Picard
.
Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the
East Africa
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Development projects
Environment
Unravel
2012
14
‘
Directed by
Meghna Gupta
.
‘Unravel’ follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world
South Asia
Labour
Material Culture
Collective / Community identity
Ustad Rahim
2008
55
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician,
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Personal Narrative