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Films
6 Films
with a digital version available
x
Keywords
“Rural”
and
“Social Change”
x
films with a digital version
6
x
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
North America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Europe
2
Western Europe
1
Country
Albania
1
France
1
Greece
1
Greenland
1
India
1
Mongolia
1
Keywords
Environment
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
1
Herding
2
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Post-communism
1
Rural
6
x
Social Change
6
x
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Moser, Brian
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Wason, David
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
3
not set
3
Country of production
Germany
1
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
4
Year of production
1974
1
1975
1
1987
1
1991
1
2008
2
Film list
The Albanians of Rrogam
1991
52
‘
Directed by
David Wason
.
With the fall of the Stalinist regime in Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the people of a remote mountain village, Rrogam, are faced with the dilmma of how to re-allocate the land and
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Social Change
Land Rights
Rural
The Basques of Santazi
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
*In her book ‘The Circle of Mountains’ Sandra Ott provided a fascinating analysis of social reciprocity (…) The film highlights the village’s contemporary dilemmas and thereby complements rather
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Rural
The Golden Beach
2008
58
‘
Directed by
Hasse Wester
.
A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Rural
Social Change
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
Mongolia, part 1: On the Edge of the Gobi
1975
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
Mongolia is a country the size of Western Europe with under 1.5 million people but over 23 million head of livestock. This film concentrates on life in the great plains of Mongolia, at the foot of
Central Asia and Far East
Herding
Social Change
Rural
Everyday Life
Sermiligaag 65°54’N, 36°22’W
2008
64
‘
Directed by
Anni Seitz
Sophie Elixhauser
.
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few
North America
Rural
Social Change
Environment