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Films
13 Films
Keywords
“Development projects”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
8
films hosted on Kanopy
1
films available on demand
3
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
Middle and Near East
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
2
South Asia
2
South-East Asia
3
Southern Africa
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
China
1
Colombia
1
Egypt
1
Indonesia
3
Madagascar
1
Pakistan
1
Portugal
1
South Africa
1
Syria
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Development projects
13
x
Disasters
2
Environment
4
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
4
Infrastructure\transport
1
Land rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Material Culture
2
Memory
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Resettlement
3
Rural
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
Directors
Afreen, Sara
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Colucci, Erminia
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
Picard, David
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Singer, André
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Svartzman, Boris
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Series
not set
13
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Country of production
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
China
1
Colombia
1
France
1
Germany
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
Netherlands
2
Pakistan
1
Portugal
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
6
United States
2
Year of production
1989
2
1990
1
2002
1
2003
1
2008
1
2009
1
2012
1
2015
2
2018
1
2019
2
Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Are You Listening!
2012
90
‘
Directed by
Kamar Ahmad Simon
Sara Afreen
.
By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named Sutarkhali, Rakhi, 27, lives with her husband Soumen, 32, and their 6 year-old son Rahul. Fighting against all the odds of the woods,
South Asia
Environment
Disasters
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Between two Villages
2003
94
‘
Directed by
Muriel Jaquerod
Eduardo Saraiva Pereira
.
Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few
Western Mediterranean
Resettlement
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
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
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
Fighting for Nothing to Happen
2015
48
‘
Student
Directed by
Nora Wildenauer
.
After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the
South-East Asia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Disasters
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
Little Waterfall
2002
52
‘
Directed by
Joshka Wessels
.
Shallalah Saghirah (‘Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat
Middle and Near East
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Development projects
A New Era
2019
71
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
.
In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police
Central Asia and Far East
Urban
Development projects
Infrastructure\transport
Land rights
Resettlement
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
Suspension
2019
73
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Simón Uribe
.
This film documents the building of a modern road through the imposing geography of southern Colombia. It brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions of a construction project
South America
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Rural
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