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Films
8 Films
Keywords
“Personal Narrative”
x
films with a digital version
3
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
films available on demand
4
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Latin America
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
West Africa
2
Western Europe
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Cameroon
1
Colombia
1
Costa Rica
1
Germany
1
Togo
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Alternative culture
2
Archaeology
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Death
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
2
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Life Story/ Life History
1
Marriage
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Personal Narrative
8
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Political Activists
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Social Conflict
1
Social Norms
1
Social participation
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Baily, John
1
Bolchover, James
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Ortiz, Carolina Arias
1
Papenbrook, Jana
1
Ross, Nina
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
Shorts Collection 2
1
not set
5
Country of production
Colombia
1
Costa Rica
1
Germany
1
Norway
1
United Kingdom
4
Year of production
2001
1
2002
1
2008
1
2017
2
2020
3
Film list
A Colombian Family
2020
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Tanja Wol Sørensen
.
A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement—both personal and political—the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible
South America
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Intergenerational relations
Memory
Migration
Personal Narrative
Political Activists
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Conflict
The Daring Young Girl on the Flying Trapeze
2020
27
‘
Directed by
Nina Ross
.
As a child, Nancy Willis dreamt of joining the circus, longing for freedom and adventure. Diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and told she would not live beyond her twenties, the now 65-year-old artist
British-Irish Isles
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
Personal Narrative
Health/ Health care/ Healing
Life Story/ Life History
Drive it, Crash it, Paint it
2002
26
‘
Directed by
James Bolchover
.
Kelzo grew up in Hulme and has been writing on walls, wrecked cars and other urban surfaces since 1984. But now that he is a ‘graffiti artist’ whose work is sold in galleries, is he still in touch with his roots?
British-Irish Isles
Personal Narrative
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Rebel Objects
2020
70
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Carolina Arias Ortiz
.
Anthropologist and filmmaker Carolina Arias Ortiz returns to Costa Rica to visit her estranged father. When he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, death suddenly draws close. During this time she
Latin America
Archaeology
Death
Personal Narrative
Usch in the Bush
2001
32
‘
Directed by
Michaela Schäuble
.
In the 1980s Ursula Heimer leaves behind her husband and children in Germany and goes to live in the African bush. We meet her seventeen years later in a tiny village in Togo, where she has been
West Africa
Personal Narrative
Alternative culture
Ustad Rahim
2008
55
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician,
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Personal Narrative
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
Wives
2017
85
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing
West Africa
Family / Kinship
Everyday Life
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Personal Narrative
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Norms