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Films
9 Films
Keywords
“Education Knowledge Transmission”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
South America
1
South Asia
6
Western Europe
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Belgium
1
India
5
United Kingdom
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Children / Young people
7
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
9
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Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History of Anthropology
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Directors
Baily, John
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
De Groof, Matthias
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Henley, Paul
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
MacDougall, David
3
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Series
Doon School Project
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
not set
5
Country of production
Australia
3
Belgium
1
India
1
United Kingdom
3
not set
1
Year of production
1976
1
1996
1
2001
1
2003
1
2005
1
2008
1
2012
1
2013
1
2019
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The New Boys
2003
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The social dynamics of the group is the focus of this study of life in Foot House, one of Doon School’s dormitories for new boys. It begins a few days before the boys appear and shows them
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Collective / Community identity
Palimpsest of the Africa Museum
2019
69
‘
Directed by
Matthias De Groof
.
In 2013, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels (Belgium) closed for renovation. It is not only the building and the museum cabinets that are in need of renewal: the spirit of the museum has
Western Europe
Archival material / Museum displays
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Education / Knowledge Transmission
History of Anthropology
Pride of Place – Observations of lives of girls at a Public School
1976
59
‘
Directed by
Dorothea Gazidis
Kimona Landseer
Kim Longinotto
.
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Gender Role and Identity
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Some Alien Creatures
2005
74
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive
South Asia
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Education / Knowledge Transmission
A Spark in Him
2008
28
‘
Directed by
Claudia Engels
.
‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
With Morning Hearts
2001
110
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film continues MacDougall’s long-term study of an elite boys’ boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the ‘houses’ for new
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Writing Panare – Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America
Linguistics / Language
Education / Knowledge Transmission