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Films
8 Films
with a Kanopy version
x
Year of production
“2019”
x
films hosted on Kanopy
8
x
films available on demand
4
Region
Central America
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
North and Northeast Africa
3
South Asia
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Belgium
1
China
1
Ethiopia
3
India
1
Mexico
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
3
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
1
Food / Water
3
Forensic
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Gender Role and identity
1
History of Anthropology
1
Indigenous Filmmaking
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Infrastructure\transport
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Land rights
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Love
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Resettlement
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
Directors
De Groof, Matthias
1
Defersha, Eyob
1
Haddis, Tesfahun
1
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Lydall, Jean
1
Sharma, Aparna
1
Sojob, María
1
Strecker, Kaira
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Series
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
3
not set
5
Country of production
Belgium
1
China
1
Ethiopia
3
France
1
Germany
3
India
1
Mexico
1
United States
1
not set
1
Year of production
2019
8
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Film list
Abraham and Sarah II. Hosting the Gundagundo Pilgrims
2019
41
‘
Directed by
Tesfahun Haddis
.
The film is part of the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series and a sequel to ‘Abraham and Sarah I: Creators of a productive landscape’. A Tigrean farmer and his wife, who host pilgrims to a
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Food / Water
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Family Subsistence in the Hills of Hamar. We are guests of Shawa
2019
58
‘
Directed by
Jean Lydall
Kaira Strecker
.
The film is a sequel to former films on Hamar directed by Jean Lydall and Kaira Strecker, and contributes to the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series. Kaira’s childhood friend Shawa moved as a
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Everyday Life
Food / Water
In Aiye’s Garden. Propagation and Processing of Enset in the Gamo Highlands
2019
58
‘
Directed by
Eyob Defersha
.
In Aiye’s Garden is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Food / Water
A New Era
2019
71
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
.
In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police
Central Asia and Far East
Urban
Development projects
Infrastructure\transport
Land rights
Resettlement
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Education / Knowledge Transmission
History of Anthropology
Persistence
2019
54
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
.
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America
Forensic
Memory
TOTE_Grandfather
2019
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
María Sojob
.
This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the
Central America
Indigenous Filmmaking
Gender Role and Identity
Family / Kinship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Elderly people
Love
Intergenerational relations
Linguistics / Language
Memory
The Women Weavers of Assam
2019
98
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Aparna Sharma
.
The Women Weavers of Assam focuses on the craft, labour and the everyday lives of a group of women weavers in India’s northeastern state of Assam. The weavers belong to a non-profit collective
South Asia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Gender Role and identity
Material Culture