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Films
6 Films
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Series
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films with a digital version
5
films available on demand
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Region
East Africa
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Chile
1
Germany
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
2
Kenya
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
1
Elderly people
1
Ethnofiction
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
5
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
LGBTQI*
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Memory
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
2
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social participation
1
Directors
Akin, Dorcas
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Ndinya, June
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
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Australia
1
Chile
1
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1
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2
Italy
1
Kenya
1
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3
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2015
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2017
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2018
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2021
2
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
Breaking the Chains
2015
64
‘
Student
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and
South-East Asia
Prison
Health / Health care / Healing
Political Activists
Development projects
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
‘
Werbner Award
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
This is My Face
2018
57
‘
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans
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