Films 21 Films Region "North and Northeast Africa" x films with a digital version 16 short films 4 Region North and Northeast Africa 21 x Country Algeria 1 Egypt 2 Eritrea 1 Ethiopia 8 Morocco 3 Sudan 6 Keywords Agriculture / Farming 2 Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany 1 Art / Artists / Artisans 1 Children / Young people 2 Collective / Community identity 4 Dance / Theatre / Performance 1 Development projects 2 Environment 1 Family / Kinship 1 Film / Photography / Mass media 1 Gender Role and Identity 5 Health / Health care / Healing 3 Informant-researcher relationship 1 Infrastructure / Transport 1 Labour 1 Marriage 3 Material Culture 1 Migration 2 Nomads and Nomadism 1 Possession 1 Reflexivity 1 Refugees / Displaced populations 3 Religion / Belief / Faith 1 Ritual 2 Rural 2 Social Change 2 Social Conflict 2 Social Norms 1 Social Organisation 4 Socioeconomic conditions 1 Sport 1 Squatter Settlements / Homelessness 2 Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 1 Trade 1 Urban 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 4 Directors Cook, Alistair 1 Curling, Chris 1 Dumont, Dirk 1 Dunne, Bryony 1 Haensch, Valerie 1 Hardie, Amy 1 Harries, Andy 1 Howes, Arthur 2 Husmann, Rolf 1 Kawase, Itsushi 1 Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa 1 Longinotto, Kim 1 Lydall, Jean 1 MacDonald, Bruce 1 Merrun, Gabriel 1 Nairn, Charlie 1 Sperschneider, Werner 1 Strecker, Ivo 1 Strecker, Kaira 1 Wason, David 1 Woodhead, Leslie 5 Series Disappearing World Series 9 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 2 Guardians of productive landscapes 1 In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 3 Sudan Trilogy 2 not set 7 Country of production Belgium 1 Egypt 1 Germany 4 Japan 1 United Kingdom 14 Year of production 1972 1 1974 1 1976 1 1977 1 1979 2 1985 1 1989 1 1990 1 1991 3 1993 1 1995 1 2001 1 2003 1 2006 1 2009 2 2014 1 2017 1 Film list Abraham and Sarah. Creators of a productive landscape. 2017 53' Directed by Ivo Strecker. In the highlands of Tigray - northern Ethiopia - on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn North and Northeast Africa Rural Agriculture / Farming Duka's Dilemma 2001 87' Directed by Jean Lydall Kaira Strecker. Filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter and grandson to follow the North and Northeast Africa Family / Kinship Marriage Gender Role and Identity Fresh Fields 1995 31' Directed by Alistair Cook. From conflict to construction — this is the story of two disabled ex-fighters rebuilding their lives. What does the future hold for them in Eritrea, the homeland to which they are committed? North and Northeast Africa Health / Health care / Healing War / Conflict / Reconciliation Development projects Hidden Faces 1990 52' Directed by Kim Longinotto. This film reveals contradictions in the lives of Egyptian women in Muslim society. Living abroad, Safaa Fathy returns to Egypt to interview the internationally renowned feminist writer Nawal El North and Northeast Africa Gender Role and Identity Development projects Kafi's Story 1979 53' Directed by Arthur Howes Amy Hardie. Shot in 1989, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi narrates his own story into a portable tape record as he travels from his village, North and Northeast Africa Film / Photography / Mass media Marriage Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage The Kwegu 1979 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead Andy Harries. *'The Kwegu' is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Agriculture / Farming Social Organisation Marriage Trade Living with the Invisibles 2003 52' Directed by Dirk Dumont. When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” ( caused by the the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, most North North and Northeast Africa Health / Health care / Healing Possession Migration The Migrants 1985 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason. The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy 'In Search of Cool Ground' for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional North and Northeast Africa Social Change Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations The Mursi 1974 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead. The Mursi, an unadministered tribe living in remote south-west Ethiopia, are a cattle-keeping and agricultural group without chiefs or leaders. This film, made under extremely difficult conditions, North and Northeast Africa War / Conflict / Reconciliation Social Organisation Mursi: The Land is Bad 1991 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead. A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Health / Health care / Healing Mursi: Nitha 1991 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead. The proper time for a man to go through the Age Set Ceremony, the nitha, is just as he reaches physical maturity. But many years may elapse from one nitha to the next, so it is inevitable that some North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Gender Role and Identity Nuba Conversation 1989 53' Directed by Arthur Howes. Ten years after he made 'Kafi's Story', director Arthur Howes returns to the Sudan to find the members of the Nuba who featured in his earlier documentary film. Soon after he had left the Sudan, the North and Northeast Africa Children / Young people War / Conflict / Reconciliation Refugees / Displaced populations Nuba Wrestling 1991 42' Directed by Rolf Husmann Werner Sperschneider. The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Gender Role and Identity Urban Sport Only Thinking 2009 27' Directed by Gabriel Merrun. On the North African coast in Ceuta, illegal migrants wait and hope to eventually continue onto the Spanish peninsula where they can attain asylum. Whilst waiting there, they are caught bewteen the borders. North and Northeast Africa Migration 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 Orphans of Passage: The Uduk 1993 52' Directed by Bruce MacDonald. In 1987 Sudanese government forces attacked the Uduk of Southern Sudan, and 20-25000 Uduk fled. Since then they have criss-crossed the Sudanese/Ethiopian border 5 times. In the spring of 1992, 13000 North and Northeast Africa Refugees / Displaced populations War / Conflict / Reconciliation Religion / Belief / Faith Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel 2006 23' Directed by Itsushi Kawase. The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia North and Northeast Africa Children / Young people Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity The Shilluk of Southern Sudan 1976 52' Directed by Chris Curling. This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard's 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Social Organisation Sifinja - The Iron Bride 2009 70' Directed by Valerie Haensch. A film about mobility, human creativity, and technology in a Sudanese truck community. The English Bedford-Lorry was introduced to Sudan in the late 1960s. Since then, local craftsmen technically North and Northeast Africa Infrastructure / Transport Material Culture Art / Artists / Artisans Some Women of Marrakech 1977 52' Directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies. In Marrakech, traditional attitudes to women prevail perhaps more strongly than in other Moroccan cities. This is especially true for those women who live by the standards of traditional ideals in North and Northeast Africa Gender Role and Identity Labour Dance / Theatre / Performance Social Norms The Tuareg 1972 52' Directed by Charlie Nairn. This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their North and Northeast Africa Social Organisation Social Change Socioeconomic conditions Nomads and Nomadism