Films

Film list

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Cinema Pedregal 1994 27'
Directed by Ricardo Leizaola.
For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema.
Central America Popular Culture Urban Film / Photography / Mass media Memory
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Dream Girls 1993 50'
Directed by Kim Longinotto Jano Williams.
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s glitzy musical
Central Asia and Far East Public Figure Popular Culture Dance / Theatre / Performance Gender Role and Identity
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Fragments from the Past 2006 27'
Directed by Vedide Kaymak Hakan Demiralay.
In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their
British-Irish Isles Popular Culture Migration Film / Photography / Mass media
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Life as We Know it 1995 25'
Directed by Alex Reed.
"It was Star Trek that brought us together". John and Pauline are to be wed beyond the Final Frontier at a Star Trek convention in Manchester. Among the guests are Klingons and Hollywood stars.
British-Irish Isles Popular Culture Marriage
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Tabom in Bahia 2017 52'
Directed by Juan Diego Diaz Nilton Pereira.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America West Africa Music / Ethnomusicology Collective / Community identity Memory Migration Popular Culture Race / Racism / Antiracism Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage