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Films
7 Films
Keywords
“Marriage”
x
Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
London
1
Middle and Near East
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
Southern Africa
2
Country
Bangladesh
1
Botswana
2
India
1
Indonesia
1
Iran
1
Japan
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Family / Kinship
4
Gender Role and Identity
7
Intergenerational relations
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
3
Love
2
Marriage
7
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Material Culture
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Ritual
1
Social Change
1
Social Norms
2
Directors
Chambers, Simon
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Longinotto, Kim
3
Werbner, Richard
2
Series
not set
7
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Country of production
India
1
United Kingdom
7
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Year of production
1989
1
1992
1
1998
1
2007
1
2013
1
2016
1
2018
1
Colour / Black and white
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
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
Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears
2007
63
‘
Directed by
Simon Chambers
.
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her
London
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Intergenerational relations
Social Norms
Fatmawati’s Wedding: the Weddings of two Sisters, the Preparations
1998
50
‘
Directed by
Fiona Kerlogue
.
This film records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996. There is an emphasis on the importance of the role of women in the village. Ritual exchanges
South-East Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Ritual
Material Culture
The Good Wife of Tokyo
1992
52
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Clare Hunt
.
Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the ‘Frank Chickens’, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence,
Central Asia and Far East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Social Change
Salma
2013
90
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Social Norms
Marriage
Art / Artists / Artisans