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Films
7 Films
Region
“South America”
x
Keywords
“Gender Role and Identity”
x
films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
3
short films
2
films available on demand
4
Region
South America
7
x
Country
Bolivia
1
Brazil
4
Chile
1
Colombia
1
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Environment
1
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Folklore
1
Food / Water
1
Gender Role and Identity
7
x
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
2
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Memory
2
Migration
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
2
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Resistance
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Conflict
2
Socioeconomic conditions
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Sørensen, Tanja Wol
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
not set
5
Country of production
Chile
1
Colombia
1
Netherlands
1
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
3
not set
1
Year of production
2003
1
2007
1
2008
1
2018
1
2020
3
Film list
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
The Body Won’t Close
2020
74
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
Our bodies are semi-permeable. All over the world, stories are being told about heroes who magically “close” their bodies, so as to become invincible. This film follows one such story, as it is
South America
Essay film
Gender Role and Identity
Folklore
Reflexivity
A Colombian Family
2020
80
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Tanja Wol Sørensen
.
A powerful mother-daughter drama is at the centre of this film. Rooted in disagreement—both personal and political—the film follows the consequences of a war that leaves them with an impossible
South America
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Intergenerational relations
Memory
Migration
Personal Narrative
Political Activists
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Conflict
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
This is My Face
2018
57
‘
Student
Directed by
Angélica Cabezas Pino
.
In Chile, people living with HIV fear stigma, and often conceal their condition and remain silent about what they are going through. This is My Face explores what happens when a range of men living
South America
LGBTQI*
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Health / Health care / Healing
Gender Role and Identity
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
Life Story / Life History
Art / Artists / Artisans
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
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