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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Family Kinship”
and
“Social Change”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
2
Region
Central Asia and Far East
3
South-East Europe
2
Western Europe
1
Country
China
3
Cyprus
1
Greece
1
Italy
1
Keywords
Family / Kinship
6
x
Gender Role and Identity
1
Herding
1
History
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Marriage
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Rural
2
Social Change
6
x
Directors
Lasko, Claire
2
Loizos, Peter
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
MacDougall, David
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
1
Seaman, Gary
1
Song, Zhifang
1
Woodhead, Leslie
2
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
Song Family Village
1
not set
3
Country of production
Australia
1
China
1
Italy
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1983
2
1985
1
1993
1
2009
1
Film list
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
Living with the Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
*These three films (‘Inside China: Living with the Revolution’; ‘The Newest Revolution’; ‘The Kazakhs of China’) present a valuable record of aspects of most recent developments in China.* (A.
Central Asia and Far East
Social Change
History
Family / Kinship
The Newest Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
This film is a continuation of ‘Living with the Revolution’, set in the same communes near Wuxi and focusing on the same families. This film concentrates, however, on the new social and economic
Central Asia and Far East
Family / Kinship
Social Change
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
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