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7
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4
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12
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9
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1
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3
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2
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2
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3
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2
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4
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5
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12
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15
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14
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12
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8
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6
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7
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5
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9
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10
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6
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11
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1
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18
Health / Health care / Healing
19
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1
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2
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4
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4
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4
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12
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6
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6
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4
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5
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2
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5
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16
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3
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4
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3
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1
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4
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11
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15
Music / Ethnomusicology
18
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1
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2
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4
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6
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3
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2
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3
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6
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6
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25
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3
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2
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1
Ritual
25
Rural
7
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1
Sex / Sexuality
9
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4
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13
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4
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2
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1
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1
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8
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1
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2
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5
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4
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1
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8
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5
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
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Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Baily, John
10
Balikci, Anna
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Balikci, Asen
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Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
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Banks, Marcus
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Basu, Helene
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Beier, Ulli
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Bhattachary, Nilanjan
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Bonifacio, Valentina
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Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Boswall, Karen
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Bradbury, Ray
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Brass, Anna
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Brewer, Teri F.
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
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Brown, David
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
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Dettmann, Christine
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
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Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Dreiss, Meredith
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Entell, Peter
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Garland, Christy
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Grimshaw, Anna
2
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hawkins, Richard
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Heusch, Luc de
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Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Hörmann, André
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Journet, Martine
2
Kapon, Eytan
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kharel, Dipesh
2
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levie, Francoise
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
2
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
2
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Meyknecht, Steef
1
Milner, George
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Ndinya, June
1
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Niglas, Liivo
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Nougarol, Gérard
2
Opipari, Carmen
1
Owles, Ed
1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Picard, David
1
Powell, Harry
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Saito, Asami
1
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Singer, André
2
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
7
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Straube, Anna
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jamie
1
Tender, Priit
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Werner, Louis
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
not set
1
Șalaru, Maria
1
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Argentina
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Australia
2
Belgium
5
Bolivia
1
Brazil
1
Bulgaria
1
Canada
2
Chile
1
China
2
Denmark
2
Egypt
1
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1
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1
France
9
Germany
9
Hungary
2
Iceland
1
India
7
Indonesia
3
Italy
7
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Kenya
2
Mexico
2
Nepal
1
Netherlands
6
Nigeria
7
Norway
4
Pakistan
1
Peru
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
Spain
1
Sweden
2
Switzerland
7
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
71
United States
16
not set
2
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1964
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1966
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4
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4
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5
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8
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5
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8
2009
7
2010
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10
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11
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Film list
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change
Ymako
1998
52
‘
Directed by
Laurent Van Lancker
Robin Shuffield
.
Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Health / Health care / Healing
Social participation
Youth Group
2015
28
‘
Student
Directed by
Wanwan Lu
.
Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant
North America
Collective / Community identity
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations