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Films
13 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Social Change”
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Series
“0”
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films with a digital version
13
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short films
3
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
Central Europe
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
North America
1
South America
3
South Asia
2
South-East Europe
2
West Africa
1
Country
Colombia
1
Cyprus
1
Greece
1
Greenland
1
Hungary
1
India
2
Papua New Guinea
1
Russian Federation
1
Senegal
2
Venezuela
1
not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Death
1
Environment
1
Family / Kinship
2
Festivals / Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Labour
1
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Material Culture
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
1
Reflexivity
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Resistance
1
Rural
3
Social Change
13
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Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Trade
1
Directors
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Drion, Georges
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Henley, Paul
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Kapon, Eytan
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Tari, János
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Series
not set
13
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Country of production
France
1
Germany
1
Hungary
1
India
1
Norway
1
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1985
1
1987
1
2002
1
2005
1
2006
1
2008
2
2012
1
2013
1
2015
2
2016
1
Film list
The Devil’s Mills. Roundabouts don’t Build Houses any more
2006
56
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the life and work of this social
Central Europe
Labour
Social Change
Trade
Festivals / Carnival
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
Ignacio’s Legacy
2016
52
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Titus Fossgard-Moser
.
Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods"
South America
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Change
Reflexivity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Kanraxël: the Confluence of Agnack
2015
52
‘
Student
Directed by
Remigiusz (aka Remi) Sowa
.
**DVD copies are available for secondary teaching and home use at the following prices: £35 (plus VAT) schools and colleges; £20 (plus VAT) individual / home use licence** Agnack is a
West Africa
Linguistics / Language
Social Change
Land of Udehe
2015
26
‘
Student
Directed by
Ivan Golovnev
.
This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010, their population dropped to 1,490 souls…
Central Asia and Far East
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Letter to the Dead
2002
62
‘
Directed by
Andre Iteanu
Eytan Kapon
.
The film is about the encounter between tradition and modernity. In a small village of Papua New Guinea three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in
Melanesia
Social Change
Art / Artists / Artisans
Death
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
Messages by Music – Senegal in Transition
2013
76
‘
Directed by
Cornelia Strasse
.
The traditional musicians in Senegal were in charge of retaining the history of their ethnic group, along with ways of thinking and behaving. Their aim was to conserve the society. Nowadays the
East Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Social Change
Political Activists
Resistance
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
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
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
Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim
2005
60
‘
Directed by
Dawa T Lepcha
Anna Balikci-Denjongpa
Asen Balikci
.
The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting,
South Asia
Social Change
Religion / Belief / Faith
Agriculture / Farming
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change