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Films
14 Films
Keywords
“Socioeconomic conditions”
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Series
“0”
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films with a digital version
8
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Central Asia and Far East
1
Melanesia
1
South America
1
South Asia
7
South-East Europe
1
Southern Africa
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Bulgaria
1
India
5
Italy
1
Japan
1
Nepal
2
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
2
Keywords
Children / Young people
2
Collective / Community identity
1
Development projects
1
Gender Role and Identity
4
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Labour
6
Land Rights
1
Migration
3
Post-communism
1
Resistance
1
Social Conflict
1
Socioeconomic conditions
14
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Sport
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
2
Urban
2
Directors
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Kharel, Dipesh
2
Longinotto, Kim
3
MacDougall, David
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Roy, Rahul
2
Saito, Asami
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Series
not set
14
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Country of production
Australia
2
Bolivia
1
Bulgaria
1
India
3
Italy
1
Japan
1
Nepal
1
Norway
1
United Kingdom
4
Year of production
1979
1
1999
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2001
2
2003
1
2005
1
2006
2
2008
2
2010
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2012
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Film list
The City Beautiful
2003
78
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have
South Asia
Urban
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Gandhi’s Children
2008
185
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Habilito – Debt for Life
2010
52
‘
Directed by
Chuck Sturtevant
.
This documentary explores many of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and lowland indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the system of debt
South America
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Labour
A Life with Slate
2006
59
‘
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
.
Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them have been
South Asia
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Majma
2001
54
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an wrestling gym (akhara) in the adjacent park and puts a group of
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Sport
Socioeconomic conditions
A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.
1999
56
‘
Directed by
Antonii Dontchev
.
Ephtim D., 73 years old, is a retired postman. He lives in Sofia with his wife Ghinka in a three room suburban apartment. As a socialist he feels confused by the ‘crazy’ democracy and the
South-East Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Post-communism
Socioeconomic conditions
Pink Saris
2010
100
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Pink saris are worn by the Gulabi Gang, a group of women vigilantes in Northern India. From the untouchable caste, they resist being condescended to as the lowest social class. They have a champion
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Resistance
Socioeconomic conditions
Playing with Nan
2012
88
‘
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Asami Saito
.
Playing with Nan is the story of a Nepali young man who migrated to work in a Nepali restaurant in northern Japan. The film explores his daily life at work and his family at home, which reflects
South Asia
Central Asia and Far East
Labour
Migration
Socioeconomic conditions
Q2P
2006
55
‘
Directed by
Paromita Vohra
.
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Socioeconomic conditions
Rough Aunties
2008
103
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
Southern Africa
Socioeconomic conditions
Children / Young people
Development projects
Sea Boundary
2012
55
‘
Directed by
Rosella Schillaci
.
The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the
Western Mediterranean
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Since the Company Came
2001
52
‘
Directed by
Russel Hawkins
.
Set in the South Pacific, in a remote Solomon Islands village, ‘Since the Company Came’ is the story of a community coming to terms with social, cultural and ecological disintegration. When village
Melanesia
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Conflict
Socioeconomic conditions
Steel Lives
2005
45
‘
Directed by
Massimiliano Mollona
.
The anthropologist spent several months working as unskilled labourer alongside Sheffield steelworkers at Morris for his PhD. This film is a look into the working lives of men who earn a living in
British-Irish Isles
Labour
Socioeconomic conditions
Collective / Community identity
Theatre Girls
1979
57
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Pollack
.
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any
British-Irish Isles
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Gender Role and Identity