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Films
12 Films
Keywords
“Political Activists”
x
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
4
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
4
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
2
South America
3
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Brazil
2
France
1
Indonesia
1
Israel
1
Italy
1
Kenya
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Paraguay
1
Syria
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Development projects
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Labour
1
Land Rights
3
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Memory
1
Political Activists
12
x
Prison
1
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Resistance
3
Ritual
1
Social Conflict
2
Sport
1
Urban
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Beckham, Michael
2
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Colucci, Erminia
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Henley, Paul
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Leach, Jerry
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Richards, Naomi
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
4
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
United Kingdom
12
x
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1987
1
1989
1
1995
1
1996
1
1997
1
2002
1
2003
1
2009
1
2015
2
2020
1
Film list
Ayouni
2020
75
‘
Directed by
Yasmin Fedda
.
Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known priest based in Mar Musa monastery. Both men were active in the 2011 Syrian revolution, and witnesses to
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
Political Activists
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
Casado’s Legacy
2009
49
‘
Directed by
Valentina Bonifacio
.
For 100 years Maskoy people worked in Carlos Casado’s tannin factory. The factory, which had been founded on their land, based its production on the exploitation of local natural resources. After
South America
Political Activists
Labour
Land Rights
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
Easy Life
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Amelia Hann
.
This film is about a Breton woman and her family, their vision of life, and their clash with the French state which marked them as ‘terrorists’.
Western Europe
Political Activists
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Kayapo
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Michael Beckham
.
This film focuses on the conflicts and determination of a group of people trying to survive and maintain their ethnic identity in the face of almost overpowering odds. The film contrasts the
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Political Activists
Resistance
Social Conflict
The Kayapo: Out of the Forest
1989
52
‘
Directed by
Michael Beckham
.
Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a reunification of the tribes at Altamira«the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam, that will flood large parts of the
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Resistance
Film / Photography / Mass media
Political Activists
Social Conflict
A Town in Sicily
2015
120
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to
South-East Europe
Political Activists
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
We Are Born to Survive
1995
30
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Paul Okojie
.
A political biography of the activist Kath Locke, from Manchester’s Moss Side, based on an interview conducted by her political comrade Paul Okojie shortly before her death in 1992, aged 64.
British-Irish Isles
Political Activists
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Public Figure
Women of a Divided Land
1997
22
‘
Directed by
Joanna Hill
.
This film follows the activities of Israeli and Palestinian women peace activists in Jerusalem and the West Bank, portraying both the collective and individual experiences of resistance.
Middle and Near East
Resistance
Political Activists
Religion / Belief / Faith
Worldwide, Streetwise
2003
32
‘
Directed by
Naomi Richards
.
A film that explores issues of faith and activism at a radical church in an ethnically and religiously diverse area of Leeds.
British-Irish Isles
Religion / Belief / Faith
Urban
Political Activists