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Films
13 Films
Keywords
“Law and Legislation Bureaucracy”
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Series
“0”
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films with a digital version
4
short films
2
Region
Australia
3
East Africa
3
Middle and Near East
1
South-East Asia
1
Southern Africa
2
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Australia
3
Botswana
2
Cameroon
1
Indonesia
1
Iran
1
Italy
1
Kenya
2
Switzerland
1
Uganda
1
Keywords
Archaeology
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Development projects
1
Disasters
2
Family / Kinship
4
Gender Role and Identity
5
Herding
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
LGBTQI*
1
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
13
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Life Story / Life History
1
Love
2
Marriage
3
Nomads and Nomadism
1
Political Activists
3
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Ritual
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Ayisi, Florence
1
Davies, Sera
1
Graham, Trevor
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Longinotto, Kim
3
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Series
not set
13
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Country of production
Australia
4
Canada
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
Netherlands
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
7
United States
2
Year of production
1972
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1983
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1989
1
1997
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2002
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2005
1
2010
1
2015
1
2016
3
2017
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2018
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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
Collum Calling Canberra
1983
59
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
An account of Aboriginal people steering their way through the often frustrating processes of official decision-making, as it is seen from their viewpoint far away from Canberra. Gordon Smith, head
Australia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
The Day I Will Never Forget
2002
92
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
The documentary explores the local dimensions of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Massai and Somali and crosscut by Christian
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Ritual
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Divorce Iranian Style
1989
80
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
This film is set in the Family Law Courts in central Tehran. The three main characters are Jamileh who punishes her husband for beating her, Ziba, a 16 year old girl who is trying to get a divorce
Middle and Near East
Marriage
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Family / Kinship
Extended Family
2016
31
‘
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Fighting for Nothing to Happen
2015
48
‘
Student
Directed by
Nora Wildenauer
.
After the volcanic eruption of Mount Rokatenda, the people of the island of Pulau Palue in east Indonesia are to be relocated. But are the planned relocation and the "new" life at the
South-East Asia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Refugees / Displaced populations
Development projects
Disasters
Law and War in Rural Kenya
2010
64
‘
Directed by
Suzette Heald
.
In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with
East Africa
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Mabo: Life of an Island Man
1997
87
‘
Directed by
Trevor Graham
.
On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie ‘Koiki’ Mabo’s tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction
Australia
Public Figure
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Life Story / Life History
Political Activists
Land Rights
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Namatjira Project
2017
87
‘
Directed by
Sera Davies
.
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira. Albert Namatjira was
Australia
Art / Artists / Artisans
Collective / Community identity
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Shepherds in the Cave
2016
87
‘
Material Culture
Directed by
Anthony Grieco
.
An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and volunteers begin work on the restoration of religious frescoes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bureaucratic challenges
Western Mediterranean
Archaeology
Herding
Art / Artists / Artisans
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Sisters in Law
2005
104
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Florence Ayisi
.
Six year old Manka has run away from home, fleeing her abusive aunt. Sonita has daringly accused her neighbor of rape. Amina has decided to end her brutal marriage by taking her husband to court. Set
West Africa
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
To Live With Herds
1972
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine.
East Africa
Nomads and Nomadism
Disasters
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy