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Films
6 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Children Young people”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
6
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short films
3
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South Asia
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Jordan
1
Kenya
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Sudan
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Children / Young people
6
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Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Family / Kinship
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Labour
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
3
Ritual
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Baily, John
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Howes, Arthur
2
Jerstad, Jon
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Series
Sudan Trilogy
2
not set
4
Country of production
Jordan
1
United Kingdom
6
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Year of production
1988
1
1989
1
1999
1
2008
1
2013
1
2014
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Benjamin and His Brother
1999
87
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
.
Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys", who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities.
North America
East Africa
Refugees / Displaced populations
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Children / Young people
Family / Kinship
Born
2008
56
‘
Directed by
Andy Lawrence
Judith Kurutuac
.
*Our hope is to create a magical-real environment in which to go beyond the limits of our historical perspective on childbirth and its culturally bound rites, and to demonstrate an emotionally
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Family / Kinship
Children / Young people
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
Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea
1988
25
‘
Directed by
Ariane Lewis
Jon Jerstad
.
A detailed account of domestic life in the Sepik area of Papua New Guinea, mainly from the women’s point of view. It describes their everyday activities in the ‘gardens’ in order to produce
Melanesia
Agriculture / Farming
Children / Young people
Ritual
Nuba Conversation
1989
53
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
.
Ten years after he made ‘Kafi’s Story’, director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Refugees / Displaced populations
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people