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Films
10 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Marriage”
x
films with a digital version
10
x
short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
2
London
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
3
Country
Bangladesh
1
Cameroon
1
China
2
Ethiopia
2
Ghana
1
Indonesia
1
Nepal
1
Sudan
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
3
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
6
History
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
1
Marriage
10
x
Material Culture
1
Personal Narrative
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Social Change
3
Social Norms
2
Social Organisation
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
2
Trade
2
Directors
Chambers, Simon
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harries, Andy
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Howes, Arthur
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
2
Seaman, Gary
2
Sincich, Francesco
1
Song, Zhifang
2
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
2
Series
Disappearing World Series
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
1
Song Family Village
2
Sudan Trilogy
1
not set
4
Country of production
China
2
Italy
1
Norway
1
United Kingdom
6
United States
2
Year of production
1977
1
1979
2
1982
1
1998
1
2007
1
2009
2
2014
1
2017
1
Film list
Asante Market Women
1982
52
‘
Directed by
Claudia Milne
.
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central Market amid the laughter, argument, colour and music. The crew of this Disappearing World film have
West Africa
Marriage
Trade
Gender Role and Identity
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
Fatmawati’s Wedding: the Weddings of two Sisters, the Preparations
1998
50
‘
Directed by
Fiona Kerlogue
.
This film records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996. There is an emphasis on the importance of the role of women in the village. Ritual exchanges
South-East Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Ritual
Material Culture
Fatuma and Asya. Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia
2014
59
‘
Directed by
Francesco Sincich
.
Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to
West Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Children / Young people
Rural
Kafi’s Story
1979
53
‘
Directed by
Arthur Howes
Amy Hardie
.
Shot in 1989, Kafi’s Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi narrates his own story into a portable tape record as he travels from his village,
North and Northeast Africa
Film / Photography / Mass media
Marriage
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
The Kwegu
1979
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Andy Harries
.
*’The Kwegu’ is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to
North and Northeast Africa
Collective / Community identity
Agriculture / Farming
Social Organisation
Marriage
Trade
Marriage, Maoism and Modernity
2009
30
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
This film outlines the types of marriage exchange practiced in a Chinese village over the last fifty years. Dowry, brideprice and exchange marriages have dominated the marriage market in turn as
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
History
Social Change
Sherpas of Nepal
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Pattie Winter
.
Thami is a village 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas in the Kingdom of Nepal. As the film’s opening shots illustrate, in a type of filmic short-hand, Thami is composed of a patchwork of individual
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Labour
Marriage
Social Change
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
Wives
2017
85
‘
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Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing
West Africa
Family / Kinship
Everyday Life
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Personal Narrative
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Norms