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Films
13 Films
Keywords
“Development projects”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
6
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
South America
2
South-East Asia
3
South-East Europe
1
Southern Africa
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Colombia
1
Egypt
1
Eritrea
1
Indonesia
2
Madagascar
1
Myanmar
1
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Romania
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Animals
1
Children / Young people
4
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
13
x
Environment
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Rural
1
Socioeconomic conditions
2
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Arnott, Susi
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Colucci, Erminia
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Hertog, Ester
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
Picard, David
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Singer, André
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
6
National Film and Television School
1
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
1
Canada
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
United Kingdom
13
x
United States
2
Year of production
1988
1
1989
2
1990
1
1994
1
1995
1
2004
1
2007
1
2008
1
2009
1
2010
1
2011
1
2015
1
Film list
Breaking the Chains
2015
64
‘
Student
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and
South-East Asia
Prison
Health / Health care / Healing
Political Activists
Development projects
The Carrot and the Stick
1988
44
‘
Directed by
Susi Arnott
.
When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British Aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at
Melanesia
Development projects
Agriculture / Farming
Rural
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
‘
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
Fresh Fields
1995
31
‘
Directed by
Alistair Cook
.
From conflict to construction — this is the story of two disabled ex-fighters rebuilding their lives. What does the future hold for them in Eritrea, the homeland to which they are committed?
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Development projects
Hidden Faces
1990
52
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
This film reveals contradictions in the lives of Egyptian women in Muslim society. Living abroad, Safaa Fathy returns to Egypt to interview the internationally renowned feminist writer Nawal El
North and Northeast Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Development projects
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
Saliendo Adelante
2011
28
‘
Directed by
Ben Cheetham
.
Growing up on the streets of Bogotá, where drugs and violence dominate, it seemed as though José might never escape this cycle. It is the job of Orlando and those at the Institution for the
South America
Children / Young people
Socioeconomic conditions
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
Uncanny Strangers
2009
46
‘
Directed by
David Picard
.
Uncanny Strangers has been filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar. Through a series of everyday life episodes the film provides insight into the relationships between the
East Africa
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Development projects
Environment
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