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Films
8 Films
Keywords
“Sex Sexuality”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
4
short films
4
films available on demand
5
Region
East Africa
1
Melanesia
1
North America
1
South America
2
South-East Asia
1
Western Europe
3
Country
Brazil
1
China
1
Colombia
1
France
1
Germany
1
Kenya
1
Los Angeles
1
Netherlands
1
Samoa
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Ethnofiction
3
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
5
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
LGBTQI*
2
Labour
1
Love
2
Migration
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Reflexivity
2
Research Methods
1
Sex / Sexuality
8
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Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Akin, Dorcas
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Cai, Hua
1
Croall, Heather
1
Eagle, Rob
1
F. Quigua, Claudia
1
Mai, Nick
1
Ndinya, June
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Sterre Schmitz, Julia
1
Series
Pleasure Shorts
3
not set
5
Country of production
Australia
1
China
1
Colombia
1
Denmark
1
France
1
Kenya
1
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1995
1
1999
1
2007
1
2016
1
2018
1
2019
1
2020
2
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Atieno
2018
64
‘
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality
Come Here Come Here
2019
28
‘
Directed by
Julia Sterre Schmitz
.
As a poetic manifesto for a more plural understanding of female sexuality, this associative film interweaves many theories, images, fantasies, memories and confusions drawn from popular culture,
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Love
Gender Role and Identity
Research Methods
Motels
2020
27
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Directed by
Claudia F. Quigua
.
Have you ever been in a motel room with rounded beds, love chairs, coloured lights and dancing poles? This film explores a prominent yet often overlooked aspect of Colombian culture through the
South America
Sex / Sexuality
Love
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
Oink!
2020
22
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Directed by
Rob Eagle
.
An experimental research documentary offering a portrait of gay men who‚ in different ways‚ relate to the “pig” sexual imaginary. It provides insight into their experiences of identity,
Western Europe
North America
Sex / Sexuality
LGBTQI*
Collective / Community identity
Paradise Bent. Boys will be Girls in Samoa
1999
51
‘
Directed by
Heather Croall
.
Paradise Bent is a fascinating and entertaining film that tells the story of the Samoan fa’afafines: boys who are raised as girls and take on the domestic duties performed by women around the home,
Melanesia
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
Transfiction
2007
58
‘
Directed by
Johannes Sjøberg
.
Transfiction explores ‘ethnofiction’ – an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others’ life experiences
South America
Reflexivity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
LGBTQI*
Ethnofiction
Travel (double screen)
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see ‘Travel’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Reflexivity
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality