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Films
14 Films
Keywords
“Rural”
x
Series
“0”
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films with a digital version
7
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
5
films available on demand
4
Region
Australia
1
Melanesia
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
2
South Asia
4
South-East Europe
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
2
Country
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Colombia
1
Egypt
1
Ethiopia
1
Greece
1
Greenland
1
India
3
Italy
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Switzerland
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Children / Young people
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
1
Environment
4
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
3
Food / Water
2
Gender Role and Identity
4
Herding
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Labour
1
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Marriage
1
Material Culture
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Resistance
1
Rural
14
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Social Change
4
Social Conflict
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Burstin, Costanza
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Loizos, Peter
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Uribe, Simón
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Östör, Ákos
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
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14
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Country of production
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1
Australia
2
Colombia
1
Egypt
1
Germany
1
India
1
Italy
2
Slovenia
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
1
United States
1
not set
1
Year of production
1974
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1986
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1989
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1993
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2008
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2014
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2018
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2019
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2020
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Film list
Enet Yapai – an Ambonwari Girl
2008
25
‘
Directed by
Daniela Vávrová
.
Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and
Melanesia
Children / Young people
Rural
Everyday Life
Fatuma and Asya. Two Afar Girls in Ethiopia
2014
59
‘
Directed by
Francesco Sincich
.
Two young Afar girls, Fatuma (10) and Asya (13), show us their daily life in two different contexts of the Afar Region in Ethiopia. Both of them face hard challenges: finding an alternative way to
West Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Children / Young people
Rural
The Golden Beach
2008
58
‘
Directed by
Hasse Wester
.
A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Rural
Social Change
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri
2016
29
‘
Material Culture
Directed by
Thomas Horat
.
Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a
Western Europe
Material Culture
Labour
Rural
The Orchard Keepers
2014
24
‘
Directed by
Bryony Dunne
.
Against the backdrop of political upheaval, an ancient network of orchards thrives in the mountains of the Sinai desert. Filmmaker Bryony Dunne shadows two Bedouins as they nurture their gardens and
North and Northeast Africa
Environment
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Rural
Paani: of women and water
2018
22
‘
Student
Directed by
Costanza Burstin
.
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in
South Asia
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Rural
Everyday Life
Seed and Earth
1989
36
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Sermiligaag 65°54’N, 36°22’W
2008
64
‘
Directed by
Anni Seitz
Sophie Elixhauser
.
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few
North America
Rural
Social Change
Environment
Sunny and the Dark Horse
1986
86
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A true story of a country family’s gradual involvement and growing passion for ‘picnic racing’. Sunny Bancroft is an Aboriginal cattle-station manager in New South Wales. With his
Australia
Rural
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Suspension
2019
73
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Simón Uribe
.
This film documents the building of a modern road through the imposing geography of southern Colombia. It brilliantly captures some of the absurdities and contradictions of a construction project
South America
Development projects
Infrastructure / Transport
Material Culture
Rural
Tara’s footprint
2018
70
‘
Intangible Culture
Directed by
Georgina Barreiro
.
Tara’s Footprint skilfully conjures the atmosphere of Khechuperi, a village in the Himalayas in north eastern India. Eschewing standard exposition the film follows four young siblings as they go
South Asia
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Everyday Life
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Rural
Tempus de Baristas
1993
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their
Western Europe
Herding
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Rural
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
‘
Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
.
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict