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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Development projects”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
4
films available on demand
1
Region
East Africa
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
Southern Africa
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Egypt
1
Indonesia
2
Madagascar
1
South Africa
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Development projects
6
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Environment
2
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Colucci, Erminia
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Longinotto, Kim
2
Picard, David
1
Singer, André
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Australia
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
United Kingdom
6
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United States
2
Year of production
1989
2
1990
1
2008
1
2009
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
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
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
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
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