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Films
7 Films
Keywords
“Health Health care Healing”
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Series
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Festival Prize Category
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films with a digital version
6
short films
1
films available on demand
4
Region
East Africa
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
West Africa
3
Western Europe
1
Country
Germany
1
Ghana
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Ivory Coast
1
Kenya
1
Nigeria
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
2
Elderly people
1
Ethnofiction
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
6
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
1
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
2
Sex / Sexuality
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social participation
2
Directors
Akin, Dorcas
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Balikci, Anna
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Ndinya, June
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Speed, Frank
1
Series
not set
7
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Country of production
Belgium
1
Germany
1
Ghana
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Kenya
1
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Year of production
1963
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1998
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2011
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2017
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2018
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2021
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Festival Prize Category
Film list
Atieno
2018
64
‘
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
NKABOM: A LITTLE MEDICINE, A LITTLE PRAYER
2021
79
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual Journeys
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Dawa Lepcha
Anna Balikci
.
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for
South Asia
Ritual
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
Why is Mr W. Laughing?
2017
76
‘
Directed by
Jana Papenbrook
.
Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than
Western Europe
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Elderly people
Health / Health care / Healing
Life Story / Life History
Personal Narrative
Social participation
Ymako
1998
52
‘
Directed by
Laurent Van Lancker
Robin Shuffield
.
Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Health / Health care / Healing
Social participation