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Films
11 Films
Keywords
“Family Kinship”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
5
short films
8
films available on demand
2
Region
Central Asia and Far East
3
East Africa
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
2
South-East Europe
1
Southern Africa
2
Western Europe
1
Country
Bangladesh
1
Botswana
2
China
3
Cyprus
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
Kenya
1
Nepal
1
Keywords
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Collective / Community identity
2
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
10
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Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
1
Gender Role and Identity
6
Gender Role and identity
1
Herding
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Love
2
Marriage
5
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Ritual
2
Rural
2
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
3
Directors
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Cai, Hua
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Fox, James J.
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Harrison, Ross
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
2
Seaman, Gary
2
Song, Zhifang
2
Werbner, Richard
2
Östör, Ákos
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
Song Family Village
2
Turkana Conversations
1
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
3
China
3
Italy
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
4
Year of production
1981
1
1985
1
1988
1
1989
1
1993
1
1995
1
2009
2
2016
1
2018
1
2019
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Breaking the Yard
2018
21
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Caught in Between
2016
56
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
The Secret of the Stone
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Located on the North China Plain about 200 miles south of Beijing, ‘Song Family Village’ is home to about 1,300 people. Some 80% of all villagers are members of a single lineage of the Song surname.
Central Asia and Far East
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Ritual
Festivals / Carnival
Seed and Earth
1989
36
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
‘
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Spear and Sword: a Payment of Bridewealth on the Island of Roti
1988
22
‘
Directed by
James J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
The film begins as the groom’s side gathers the animals and money for a bridewealth payment, and discusses problems that might arise in negotiating the exchange. In ritual silence, they walk to the
South-East Asia
Ritual
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Spirit
2019
19
‘
Directed by
Jane Dyson
Ross Harrison
.
Saraswati is a new arrival in an Indian Himalayan village. She wonders how she will ever feel at home in the new setting. “Spirit” by Jane Dyson and Ross Harrison is a story of longing and
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and identity
Agriculture/ Farming
Everyday Life
Family/ Kinship
Tempus de Baristas
1993
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Rural
A Wife Among Wives
1981
72
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
David MacDougall
.
This segment of the trilogy on the Turkana of northern Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘The Wedding Camels’ above) evolves around the role of women in the society. The audience follows the
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality