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Films
5 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Health Healthcare Healing”
and
“Religion Belief Faith”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
5
x
films available on demand
2
Region
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
1
Country
Brazil
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
1
South Africa
1
Sudan
1
Keywords
Health / Health care / Healing
5
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
5
x
Ritual
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Colucci, Erminia
2
Cross, Stephen
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Singer, André
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
not set
3
Country of production
Ghana
1
Indonesia
1
United Kingdom
5
x
Year of production
1974
1
1977
1
1982
1
2021
2
Film list
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Heal the Whole Man
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Paul Robinson
.
The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
NKABOM: A LITTLE MEDICINE, A LITTLE PRAYER
2021
79
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
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
Witchcraft Among the Azande
1982
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
*Witchcraft among the Azande’ is suitable for showing in undergraduate and graduate classes on topics of religion, philosophy, and African ethnography. It could also be stimulating to discussions of
North and Northeast Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
Social Change