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Films
10 Films
Keywords
“Environment”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
7
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
films available on demand
4
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South Asia
3
South-East Asia
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
China
1
Egypt
1
Greenland
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Madagascar
1
Pakistan
1
Spain
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Archaeology
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Development projects
4
Disasters
1
Environment
10
x
Everyday Life
2
Food / Water
2
Gender Role and Identity
2
Herding
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Land Rights
1
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Nomads and Nomadism
1
Political Activists
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Resettlement
1
Resistance
1
Rural
4
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Afreen, Sara
1
Ahmad Simon, Kamar
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Entell, Peter
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Picard, David
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Singer, André
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
not set
10
x
Country of production
Bangladesh
1
Egypt
1
Germany
2
India
1
Pakistan
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
3
United States
1
not set
1
Year of production
1988
1
1989
1
2008
1
2009
1
2012
1
2014
1
2018
3
2020
1
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
Depending on Heaven
1988
56
‘
Directed by
Peter Entell
.
The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey
Central Asia and Far East
Environment
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Everyday Life
The Orchard Keepers
2014
24
‘
Directed by
Bryony Dunne
.
Against the backdrop of political upheaval, an ancient network of orchards thrives in the mountains of the Sinai desert. Filmmaker Bryony Dunne shadows two Bedouins as they nurture their gardens and
North and Northeast Africa
Environment
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Rural
Paani: of women and water
2018
22
‘
Student
Directed by
Costanza Burstin
.
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in
South Asia
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Rural
Everyday Life
Sermiligaag 65°54’N, 36°22’W
2008
64
‘
Directed by
Anni Seitz
Sophie Elixhauser
.
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few
North America
Rural
Social Change
Environment
Tindaya Variations
2018
40
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Isaac Marrero-Guillamon
.
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) is more than a mountain. It was a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura; later, its rock was quarried and sold for ornamental
Western Mediterranean
Archival material / Museum displays
Art / Artists / Artisans
Environment
Material Culture
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Archaeology
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
‘
Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
.
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict
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