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Films
11 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Family Kinship”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
11
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short films
5
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Caribbean Islands
1
Central Asia and Far East
3
East Africa
1
London
1
North America
2
Scandinavia
1
South-East Europe
2
Western Europe
1
Country
Anguilla
1
Bangladesh
1
China
2
Cyprus
1
Denmark
1
Greece
1
Kenya
1
Nepal
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
2
Keywords
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Children / Young people
2
Collective / Community identity
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
10
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Family/ Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Marriage
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Reproduction (biology)
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
2
Social Change
4
Social Norms
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Chambers, Simon
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Howes, Arthur
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Woodhead, Leslie
2
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
Shorts Collection 2
1
Sudan Trilogy
1
not set
7
Country of production
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
11
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Year of production
1974
1
1983
2
1985
1
1999
1
2007
1
2008
1
2012
1
2016
2
2019
1
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
Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears
2007
63
‘
Directed by
Simon Chambers
.
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her
London
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Intergenerational relations
Social Norms
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
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
Living with the Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
*These three films (‘Inside China: Living with the Revolution’; ‘The Newest Revolution’; ‘The Kazakhs of China’) present a valuable record of aspects of most recent developments in China.* (A.
Central Asia and Far East
Social Change
History
Family / Kinship
The Newest Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
This film is a continuation of ‘Living with the Revolution’, set in the same communes near Wuxi and focusing on the same families. This film concentrates, however, on the new social and economic
Central Asia and Far East
Family / Kinship
Social Change
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
Spirit
2019
19
‘
Directed by
Jane Dyson
Ross Harrison
.
Saraswati is a new arrival in an Indian Himalayan village. She wonders how she will ever feel at home in the new setting. “Spirit” by Jane Dyson and Ross Harrison is a story of longing and
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and identity
Agriculture/ Farming
Everyday Life
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