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Films
11 Films
Keywords
“Animals”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
5
short films
5
films available on demand
3
Region
Australia
4
British-Irish Isles
1
Central Asia and Far East
2
Central Europe
1
North America
1
South-East Asia
2
Country
Australia
4
China
1
Hungary
1
Indonesia
2
Taiwan
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Keywords
Animals
11
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Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Elderly People
1
Food / Water
1
Herding
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Labour
1
Land Rights
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Travellers / Roma
1
Directors
Blake, John
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Gao, Ang
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Johnston, Graham
1
MacDougall, David
3
MacDougall, Judith
3
Palmer, Lisa
1
Sandall, Roger
1
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
National Film and Television School
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
not set
4
Country of production
Australia
5
Canada
1
China
1
Taiwan
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1969
1
1982
1
1984
1
1985
1
1986
1
1988
1
2004
1
2010
1
2019
2
2020
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Across the Tracks – The Vlach Gypsies in Hungary
1988
52
‘
Directed by
John Blake
.
*’Across the Tracks’ is a gripping film for the general viewer. It is beautifully filmed in observational style (lingering scenes of muddy courtyards) with enough subtitled interview material to
Central Europe
Animals
Labour
Travellers / Roma
Camels of the Pitjantjara
1969
45
‘
Directed by
Roger Sandall
.
From the 1920s onwards, when motor vehicles displaced camels as a mode of supply in central Australia, camels gradually went feral. As this film shows, however, in the 1960s, the Pitjantjara were
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Infrastructure / Transport
Animals
Lives and Deaths between Ebbs and Flows
2019
14
‘
Directed by
Futuru C.L. Tsai
.
Futuru Tsai explores the relationship between Amis people and the sea in this playful portrait of maritime culture in coastal Taiwan. The film focuses on various social and practical activities in
Central Asia and Far East
Animals
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
The Ospreys and the Old Man
2020
9
‘
Directed by
Ang Gao
.
A 76-year-old man living in a village in the middle of China continues the traditional practice of using ospreys (鱼鹰. 鱼鹰 usually referred to as great cormorant in English) to fish while most
Central Asia and Far East
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
Animals
Elderly People
Raised by Humans
2010
25
‘
Directed by
Karlia Campbell
.
‘Raised by Humans’ follows two dogs with difficult life histories as volunteers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals try to find families to adopt them in Stockport,
British-Irish Isles
Animals
Development projects
Small Man of the Forest
2004
37
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Directed by
Hugh Hartford
.
Murray Collins leaves his city life in search of a bipedal ape. On his journey to highland Sumatra, he meets an academic, three farmers, two conservationists and a shaman, all of whom advise him on
South-East Asia
Animals
Stockman’s Strategy
1984
52
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Education / Knowledge transmission
Sunny and the Dark Horse
1986
86
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his
Australia
Rural
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Three Horsemen
1982
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
Bob Massey Pootchemunka has spent most of his life as a stockman and drover. Now over 75, his ambition is to see an all-Aboriginal cattle station operating at Ti-Tree on his traditional clan land.
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Herding
Animals
Land Rights
Tuktu
1985
47
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded almost 30 years ago on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development mark life now in this
North America
Animals
Social Change
Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Lisa Palmer
.
For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border. Timor’s migratory wild honey bees challenge this division. In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are
South-East Asia
Animals
Food / Water
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing