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Films
7 Films
with a digital version available
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available to watch on demand
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
7
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short films
3
films available on demand
7
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Region
Caribbean Islands
1
North America
2
South America
1
South-East Asia
3
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Anguilla
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
2
Myanmar
1
Peru
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
2
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
1
Ethnofiction
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
3
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
3
Directors
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
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not set
7
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Country of production
Australia
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
Peru
1
United Kingdom
7
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United States
1
Year of production
1996
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2015
2
2016
1
2019
1
2021
2
Film list
Breaking the Chains
2015
64
‘
Student
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and
South-East Asia
Prison
Health / Health care / Healing
Political Activists
Development projects
A Donation to the Museum
2015
25
‘
Directed by
Teri F. Brewer
.
Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they
North America
Western Europe
Archaeology
Archival material / Museum displays
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Horror in the Andes
2019
33
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it
South America
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ethnofiction
Film / Photography / Mass media
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills
1996
51
‘
Directed by
Hiroko Kawanami
.
In the Sagaing Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the
South-East Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
NKABOM: A LITTLE MEDICINE, A LITTLE PRAYER
2021
79
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Treasured Moments
2016
33
‘
Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
.
This is the personal story of a boy who grew up mixed in every aspect of his life, his parents, where he was from, his race. The black kid who thought that he was white. The white kid who thought
Caribbean Islands
North America
Family / Kinship
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Film / Photography / Mass media