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Films
9 Films
with a digital version available
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Series
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Country of production
“Germany”
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films with a digital version
9
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short films
2
films available on demand
1
Region
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
South Asia
3
Southern Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Germany
1
Greece
1
Greenland
1
India
2
Pakistan
1
South Africa
1
Sudan
2
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
2
Development projects
1
Environment
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Labour
1
Love
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resettlement
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Science / Technology
1
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
Sport
1
Urban
1
Directors
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Basu, Helene
1
Brass, Anna
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Hörmann, André
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Straube, Anna
1
Series
not set
9
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Country of production
Germany
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India
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Pakistan
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Year of production
1991
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2006
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2008
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2009
3
2012
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2013
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2018
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Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Breeding Cells
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Anna Straube
.
Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There
Western Europe
Reproduction (biology)
Science / Technology
Calcutta Calling
2006
16
‘
Directed by
André Hörmann
.
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western
South Asia
Labour
Drugs & Prayers
2009
55
‘
Directed by
Helene Basu
.
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Leaving Greece
2013
79
‘
Directed by
Anna Brass
.
When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all refugees, the Aegean is the
Western Mediterranean
Children / Young people
Migration
Love
Nuba Wrestling
1991
42
‘
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
Werner Sperschneider
.
The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a
North and Northeast Africa
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Sport
Orania
2012
94
‘
Directed by
Tobias Lindner
.
Orania is situated in South Africa’s barren Northern Cape province. All of its 800 inhabitants are white Afrikaners. They live here on private property which was bought in 1991. People of other
Southern Africa
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
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
Sifinja – The Iron Bride
2009
70
‘
Directed by
Valerie Haensch
.
A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically
North and Northeast Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans