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Films
7 Films
Keywords
“Health Health care Healing”
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Series
“Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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short films
7
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South Asia
2
South-East Asia
1
Country
Brazil
1
Eritrea
1
India
2
Myanmar
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Alternative culture
2
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Children / Young people
1
Development projects
2
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Health / Health care / Healing
7
Ritual
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Cook, Alistair
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Grove-White, Will
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
7
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Country of production
United Kingdom
7
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Year of production
1995
1
1997
2
2001
1
2003
1
2004
1
2008
1
Film list
Cae Dai – a Home From Home
1997
30
‘
Directed by
Will Grove-White
.
After the closure of the North Wales psychiatric hospital in the late 1980s, Sparrow Harrison opened his family home to local people suffering from mental illness. This film explores the humour,
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Alternative culture
Fresh Fields
1995
31
‘
Directed by
Alistair Cook
.
From conflict to construction — this is the story of two disabled ex-fighters rebuilding their lives. What does the future hold for them in Eritrea, the homeland to which they are committed?
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Development projects
Healer on the Street
2003
28
‘
Directed by
Joceny Pinhheiro
.
During the day, Isnar is a community paramedic who works in the local clinic and runs an arts and drugs rehabilitation centre for young people in Fortaleza on the coast of Northeast Brazil. But by
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
A New Kind of Life
1997
28
‘
Directed by
Emma Farrell
.
How is someone’s life affected when faced with cancer? This film is a portrait of three people from Manchester, England, who have chosen to include complementary therapies as part of their daily coping strategies.
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Alternative culture
The Second Red Line
2004
25
‘
Directed by
Veera Lehto
.
In HIV testing, the second red line is the indication of a positive result. This film follows two volunteers working with HIV & Aids sufferers in the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. In the
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Development projects
A Spark in Him
2008
28
‘
Directed by
Claudia Engels
.
‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Those who Care: Faith and Freedom in a Ladakhi Village
2001
31
‘
Directed by
Henriette Levaulx-Vrecourt
.
In Tia village, in an isolated area of Ladakh – North West India – lives an amchi (a local herbal doctor) and his wife. It is summer – a short season in the Indian Himalayas and the only period of
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany