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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Development projects”
x
Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
4
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
Middle and Near East
1
South-East Asia
2
South-East Europe
1
Southern Africa
1
Country
Indonesia
1
Myanmar
1
Palestine
1
Romania
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Children / Young people
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
6
x
Environment
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Directors
Campbell, Karlia
1
Hertog, Ester
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Singer, André
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
not set
2
Country of production
Canada
1
United Kingdom
6
United States
1
Year of production
1989
1
1994
1
2004
1
2007
1
2008
1
2010
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Hope, Despair and Laughter: A circus project in Palestine
2007
27
‘
Directed by
Ester Hertog
.
Filmed in Dheisheh refugee camp in the West bank, this film is about a circus summer-camp dedicated to bring laughter and hope for Palestinian children. Children are taught all sorts of activities
Middle and Near East
Development projects
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Children / Young 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
Rough Aunties
2008
103
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
Southern Africa
Socioeconomic conditions
Children / Young people
Development projects
The Second Red Line
2004
25
‘
Directed by
Veera Lehto
.
In HIV testing, the second red line is the indication of a positive result. This film follows two volunteers working with HIV & Aids sufferers in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. In the
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Development projects
Swings and Roundabouts
1994
30
‘
Directed by
Helen Pratt
.
Five years after the downfall of Ceausescu and Romania still receives an influx of Western European aid workers to help with rural orphanage projects. Temporary and full-time volunteers at an
South-East Europe
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Development projects
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment