Films 43 Films Region "South America" x films with a digital version 27 short films 16 Region South America 43 x Southern Africa 1 West Africa 1 Country Angola 1 Argentina 1 Bolivia 2 Brazil 14 Chile 1 Colombia 6 Ecuador 1 French Guiana 1 Ghana 1 Guyana 1 Paraguay 1 Peru 5 Venezuela 8 not set 2 Keywords Agriculture / Farming 2 Animals 2 Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany 1 Children / Young people 4 Collective / Community identity 3 Dance / Theatre / Performance 4 Death 1 Development projects 2 Education / Knowledge Transmission 1 Elderly people 1 Ethnofiction 1 Everyday Life 2 Family / Kinship 1 Festivals / Carnival 3 Film / Photography / Mass media 3 Gender Role and Identity 3 Health / Health care / Healing 4 History of Anthropology 1 Hunting / Gathering / Fishing 3 Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples 14 Informant-researcher relationship 4 Intergenerational relations 1 Internet 1 LGBTQI* 1 Labour 3 Land Rights 8 Linguistics / Language 1 Marriage 1 Material Culture 2 Memory 4 Migration 3 Music / Ethnomusicology 3 Political Activists 3 Popular Culture 1 Possession 2 Public Figure 1 Race / Racism / Antiracism 2 Reflexivity 2 Religion / Belief / Faith 9 Resistance 2 Ritual 7 Sex / Sexuality 1 Social Change 6 Social Conflict 4 Social Organisation 1 Socioeconomic conditions 3 Squatter Settlements / Homelessness 1 Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 1 Trade 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 2 Directors Ash, David 1 Assunção, Matthias Röhrig 1 Beckham, Michael 2 Bonifacio, Valentina 1 Cheetham, Ben 1 Clarissou, Priscilla 1 Coppens, Sharis 1 Cross, Stephen 1 Davidson, John Paul 1 Dettmann, Christine 1 Diaz, Juan Diego 1 Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia 1 Drion, Georges 1 Edwards, Bob 1 Ford, Ellie 1 Fossgard-Moser, Titus 1 Garland, Christy 1 Getzels, Peter 1 Gordon, Harriet 1 Henley, Paul 5 Juárez-Allen, Gema 1 Kenneil, Alastair 1 Kurc, Julia 1 Leizaola, Ricardo 1 Lipsanen, Heidi 1 Marin, Nadja 1 Moser, Brian 3 Møhl, Perle 1 Nairn, Charlie 1 Opipari, Carmen 1 Pakleppa, Richard 1 Pasini, Carlos 2 Pereira, Nilton 1 Pinhheiro, Joceny 1 Planas, María Elena 1 Rosell, Ulises 1 Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga 1 Sjøberg, Johannes 1 Solomons, Natasha 1 Sturtevant, Chuck 1 Timbert, Sylvie 1 Tucker, Andrew 1 Williams, Stacey 1 Series Disappearing World Series 9 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 12 Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film 3 National Film and Television School 2 not set 17 Country of production Argentina 1 Bolivia 1 Brazil 2 Canada 1 Denmark 2 France 2 Norway 1 South Africa 1 Sweden 1 United Kingdom 35 United States 2 Year of production 1970 1 1971 3 1974 2 1977 1 1987 5 1989 3 1990 1 1996 1 1997 1 1998 1 2000 1 2001 1 2002 1 2003 4 2004 1 2007 2 2008 3 2009 2 2010 1 2011 1 2012 3 2014 1 2015 1 2016 1 2017 1 Film list 75 Grams 2008 31' Directed by Priscilla Clarissou. Nestled below the rugged Chilean peaks of the Andes lies the gold mining town of Andacollo. The town's remoteness and mining economy has nurtured religious beliefs in the power of the Virgin over the South America Labour Material Culture Religion / Belief / Faith Bailarinas 2003 32' Directed by Heidi Lipsanen. Majê Molê is an Afro-Brazilian dance group which offers girls and young women in Olinda, Northeast Brazil, the opportunity to rise above the poverty, drug addiction and crime that scars their South America Dance / Theatre / Performance Gender Role and Identity Children / Young people Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland 1997 52' Directed by Sylvie Timbert Carmen Opipari. In the divine Afro Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children who introduce and guide us to this world. The children play South America Children / Young people Dance / Theatre / Performance Possession Ritual The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song 2012 71' Directed by Christy Garland. 'The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song', using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family South America Elderly people Family / Kinship Intergenerational relations Between Memories 2015 34' Directed by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich. Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the South America Memory War / Conflict / Reconciliation Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry 2014 87' Directed by Richard Pakleppa Matthias Röhrig Assunção Christine Dettmann. The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the African roots of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. A powerful myth links Capoeira to a legendary Angolan game called Engolo South America Southern Africa Dance / Theatre / Performance Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Casado's Legacy 2009 49' Directed by Valentina Bonifacio. For 100 years Maskoy people worked in Carlos Casado’s tannin factory. The factory, which had been founded on their land, based its production on the exploitation of local natural resources. After South America Political Activists Labour Land Rights A Clearing in the Jungle 1970 52' Directed by Charlie Nairn. Like that of many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking South America Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Informant-researcher relationship Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Condor and the Bull 1989 56' Directed by Peter Getzels Harriet Gordon. Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor South America Animals Festivals / Carnival Ritual Confluences - Emerillon of French Guiana 2007 78' Directed by Perle Møhl. Like self-fulfilling prophecies, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, an anthropologist proposes to defy South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Everyday Life Cuyagua - Devil Dancers 1987 52' Directed by Paul Henley. The men of the Afro-Caribbean population of Cuyagua enact a ritual that occurs 60 days after Easter. The film is a portrait of two men who direct the devil dancing. They tell the history of the South America Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Cuyagua - the Saint With Two Faces 1987 56' Directed by Paul Henley. The film centres on the predominantly female celebration of the feast of Saint John. The women sing the songs associated with the Feast, describe their beliefs and how they organise the feast. South America Ritual Religion / Belief / Faith Festivals / Carnival Doctors of Two Worlds 1989 55' Directed by Natasha Solomons. In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is South America Health / Health care / Healing Informant-researcher relationship Development projects Dreamland 2001 30' Directed by Gema Juárez-Allen. This film explores the dreams and frustrations of camp squatters in Rio de Janeiro State, as, supported by the MST (Landless People's Movement), they wait for permission to settle on unused land close by. South America Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Land Rights Embera — the End of the Road 1971 52' Directed by Brian Moser. The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Ethnographer 2012 86' Directed by Ulises Rosell. John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble South America History of Anthropology Everyday Life Informant-researcher relationship 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 Healer on the Street 2003 28' Directed by Joceny Pinhheiro. During the day, Isnar is a community paramedic who works in the local clinic and runs an arts and drugs rehabilitation centre for young people in Fortaleza on the coast of Northeast Brazil. But by South America Health / Health care / Healing Ritual Hillside Beauties 2008 25' Directed by Julia Kurc. In a violent, marginalized and discriminated environment such as the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, women create a time and a space to construct their identities and their beauty. Marcella, Thuany and South America Gender Role and Identity Socioeconomic conditions Ian Gleadell: A Falkland Farmer 1987 34' Directed by Bob Edwards Alastair Kenneil. The 1982 war between Britain and Argentina brought the Falkland or Malwinas Islands into the news headlines. This film is less spectacular: It shows the way of life of one inhabitant of this South America Animals Agriculture / Farming Ignacio's Legacy 2016 52' Directed by Titus Fossgard-Moser. Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods" South America Film / Photography / Mass media Social Change Reflexivity Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples The Internet Bride 2004 29' Directed by Ellie Ford. Cali in Colombia is celebrated for salsa music and beautiful women and is also the base of the Internet Bride agency, 'Latin Best' with 900 women on its files. Accompanying the British and American South America Marriage Internet The Kayapo 1987 52' Directed by Michael Beckham. This film focuses on the conflicts and determination of a group of people trying to survive and maintain their ethnic identity in the face of almost overpowering odds. The film contrasts the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Political Activists Resistance Social Conflict The Kayapo: Out of the Forest 1989 52' Directed by Michael Beckham. Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a reunification of the tribes at Altamira«the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam, that will flood large parts of the South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Resistance Film / Photography / Mass media Political Activists Social Conflict The Last of the Cuiva 1971 52' Directed by Brian Moser. The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian South America Social Change Race / Racism / Antiracism Land Rights Hunting / Gathering / Fishing The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano 2000 46' Directed by Paul Henley. Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film South America Death Public Figure Informant-researcher relationship Social Change Memory The Mehinacu 1974 52' Directed by Carlos Pasini. The Mehinacu live near the head-waters of the River Xingu in Central Brazil, in a single village within the protective confines of the Xingu National Park. Although the film concentrates upon the South America Social Organisation Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Collective / Community identity Ritual Message from a Saint 2003 27' Directed by Andrew Tucker. During the celebration of the Feast of San Juan Bautista in the village of Chuao, on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, an image of Jesus appeared on a drinks tray. The community is trying to find out South America Religion / Belief / Faith The Quechua 1974 52' Directed by Carlos Pasini David Ash. This film is set in a community of peasant agriculturalists 2 1/4 miles above sea level in the southern Peruvian Andes. Concentrating on a single family, the film explores aspects of religious and South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Religion / Belief / Faith Social Change Reclaiming the Forest 1987 39' Directed by Paul Henley Georges Drion. National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Change Social Conflict Saliendo Adelante 2011 28' Directed by Ben Cheetham. Growing up on the streets of Bogotá, where drugs and violence dominate, it seemed as though José might never escape this cycle. It is the job of Orlando and those at the Institution for the South America Children / Young people Socioeconomic conditions Development projects Self Defence 2002 28' Directed by María Elena Planas. With the Shining Path guerilla movement in decline, the government in Peru set up a Commission for Peace and Reconciliation to hear the testimonies of those who had suffered in the war. Framed by the South America War / Conflict / Reconciliation Memory Sin tierra, no somos Shuar 2009 23' Directed by Stacey Williams. Shuar traditions and land are intimately tied to another. This film explores how the traditions and relationships change when foreign mining companies enter their territory. South America Land Rights Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Social Conflict The Storyteller 1990 50' Directed by John Paul Davidson. Unaware of the written word until the 1950s, the Waura tribe who live in the headwaters of the Xingu river in Brazil still practise the art of storytelling. Tribal storyteller Aruta recounts one of South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Dance / Theatre / Performance Religion / Belief / Faith 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 Tenonde’i - a Beautiful Future 2008 30' Directed by Nadja Marin. In a village inside the world’s fifth largest and tough city, São Paulo, a young Guaraní created a children’s choir to raise money for his community. Filled with beautiful sounds, the film is a South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Children / Young people 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 Umbanda 1977 52' Directed by Stephen Cross. Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, South America Possession Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Ritual Uncle Poison 1998 60' Directed by Ricardo Leizaola. Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day, South America Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Vivir la Chicha 2003 28' Directed by Sharis Coppens. Chicha music evokes the experiences of the many Peruvians who migrate from the high Andes down to the cities. This film tells the story of Aurora Ramos, a cobbler and market saleswoman, and the role South America Music / Ethnomusicology Trade Migration War of the Gods 1971 52' Directed by Brian Moser. While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, 'War of the Gods' also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian South America Religion / Belief / Faith Collective / Community identity Agriculture / Farming Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork 1996 30' Directed by Paul Henley. Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to South America Linguistics / Language Education / Knowledge Transmission Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones 2012 58' Directed by Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin. The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Material Culture Social Change