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Films
21 Films
Keywords
“Collective Community identity”
x
Series
“0”
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films with a digital version
14
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
5
films available on demand
3
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
1
Caribbean Islands
1
Central Africa
1
Central Europe
1
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
1
North America
3
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South Asia
3
South-East Asia
2
South-East Europe
2
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
2
Country
Afghanistan
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Brazil
1
Cameroon
1
China
1
France
1
Germany
1
Ghana
1
India
3
Italy
1
Myanmar
1
Papua New Guinea
2
South Africa
1
Spain
1
Sudan
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
3
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Collective / Community identity
21
x
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Elderly people
1
Family / Kinship
3
Festivals / Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
3
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Inter-religious relations
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Migration
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
1
Popular Culture
1
Possession
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
5
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
5
Resettlement
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Conflict
2
Social participation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Sport
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Baily, John
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Cai, Hua
1
Davies, Sera
1
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kharel, Dipesh
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
MacDougall, David
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Otto, Ton
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Simon, Andrea
1
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Storaas, Frode
1
Suhr, Christian
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Series
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21
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Country of production
Australia
3
Brazil
1
China
1
Denmark
1
Germany
3
India
2
Netherlands
1
Norway
2
United Kingdom
6
United States
3
Year of production
1986
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1991
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1995
1
1996
1
1997
1
2001
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2005
2
2007
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Film list
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
A Kali Temple Inside Out
2018
83
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Frode Storaas
.
Religious boundaries in India are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as news media lead us to believe. This film portrays everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur,
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
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
Koriams Law and the Dead who Govern
2005
110
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Andrea Simon
.
In ‘Koriam’s Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogue the
Melanesia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Possession
Link-up Diary
1997
86
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The filmmaker goes on the road with Link-Up, an organisation which re-unites Aboriginal families separated in earlier decades by the New South Wales government. As the film shows, being reunited
Australia
Resettlement
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Namatjira Project
2017
87
‘
Directed by
Sera Davies
.
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was
Australia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
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
Polka
1986
50
‘
Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film confronts the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the ‘roots’ of
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
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
Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin
2007
97
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Scenes of Afghan Music is Part IV of ‘A Quartet of Afghan Music Films’, made in the author’s personal “fieldwork movie” style. It reveals the diversity of music and dance practices in the
Middle and Near East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Collective / Community identity
Steel Lives
2005
45
‘
Directed by
Massimiliano Mollona
.
The anthropologist spent several months working as unskilled labourer alongside Sheffield steelworkers at Morris for his PhD. This film is a look into the working lives of men who earn a living in
British-Irish Isles
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Collective / Community identity
Tabom in Bahia
2017
52
‘
Directed by
Juan Diego Diaz
Nilton Pereira
.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Memory
Migration
Popular Culture
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Together as One
2013
39
‘
Directed by
Kilian Lamtur Tanlaka
.
Nso’ is the biggest kingdom of the Western Grassfields and an ethnic group in the northeast corner of Cameroon’s northwest region. Its capital Kumbo is where the ruler (Fon) lives. The Nso’
Central Africa
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Collective / Community identity
Inter-religious relations
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
Unity through Culture
2011
69
‘
Directed by
Christian Suhr
Ton Otto
.
Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organizes the
Melanesia
Festivals / Carnival
Social Conflict
Collective / Community identity
Unravel
2012
14
‘
Directed by
Meghna Gupta
.
‘Unravel’ follows the Western worlds least wanted clothes, on a journey across Northern India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world
South Asia
Labour
Material Culture
Collective / Community identity
Where the Clouds End
2014
52
‘
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
‘
Directed by
Jana Papenbrook
.
Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Elderly people
Health / Health care / Healing
Life Story / Life History
Personal Narrative
Social participation
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Youth Group
2015
28
‘
Student
Directed by
Wanwan Lu
.
Set in the predominantly Asian “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, this film follows a vibrant Buddhist youth group in a Chinese-American temple. Youth group members, most raised by immigrant
North America
Collective / Community identity
Religion / Belief / Faith
Intergenerational relations