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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Collective Community identity”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
6
short films
2
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Caribbean Islands
1
Middle and Near East
1
North America
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Anguilla
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
India
1
Myanmar
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
6
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Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Labour
2
Material Culture
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Baily, John
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Bringa, Tone
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Series
not set
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Country of production
United Kingdom
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Year of production
1996
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2001
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2005
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2007
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2012
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2016
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Film list
Keepers of the Faith: The Buddhist Nuns of Sagaing Hills
1996
51
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Directed by
Hiroko Kawanami
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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
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
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Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
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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
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Directed by
John Baily
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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
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Directed by
Massimiliano Mollona
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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
Treasured Moments
2016
33
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Student
Directed by
Ravi Hart Lloyd
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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
Unravel
2012
14
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Directed by
Meghna Gupta
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‘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