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Films
8 Films
with a digital version available
x
Region
“South-East Europe”
x
films with a digital version
8
x
short films
2
Region
Central Europe
1
South-East Europe
8
x
Western Europe
1
Country
Albania
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Bulgaria
1
Cyprus
1
France
1
Greece
1
Italy
1
Romania
1
Spain
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
3
Family / Kinship
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Inter-religious relations
1
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Memory
1
Post-communism
3
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Rural
2
Social Change
3
Socioeconomic conditions
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Loizos, Peter
2
Loïzos, Peter
1
Wason, David
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
not set
6
Country of production
Bulgaria
1
United Kingdom
6
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1985
1
1991
1
1993
1
1999
1
2001
1
2010
1
2015
1
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
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘In the Light of Memory’ explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
Journey into Europe
2015
122
‘
Directed by
Akbar Ahmed
.
In Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned anthropologist, Islamic scholar, and filmmaker who the BBC has called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” explores Islam
Central Europe
Western Europe
South-East Europe
History
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
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
A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.
1999
56
‘
Directed by
Antonii Dontchev
.
Ephtim D., 73 years old, is a retired postman. He lives in Sofia with his wife Ghinka in a three room suburban apartment. As a socialist he feels confused by the ‘crazy’ democracy and the
South-East Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Post-communism
Socioeconomic conditions
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
‘
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
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
We Are All Neighbours
1993
52
‘
Directed by
Debbie Christie
.
The film shows the effect of war on families in a racially mixed village outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Moslems lived peacefully together. Norwegian anthropologist Tone
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Inter-religious relations