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Films
6 Films
Region
“South America”
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Series
“0”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
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films with a digital version
3
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
1
films available on demand
2
Region
South America
6
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West Africa
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Brazil
3
Ghana
1
Venezuela
1
not set
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Environment
1
Essay film
1
Ethnofiction
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Food / Water
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
3
LGBTQI*
1
Land Rights
2
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
1
Popular Culture
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Resistance
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
2
Social Conflict
2
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Drion, Georges
1
Henley, Paul
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Brazil
1
Netherlands
1
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
not set
1
Year of production
1987
1
2007
1
2012
1
2016
1
2017
1
2020
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Possibility of Spirits
2016
72
‘
Directed by
Mattijs van de Port
.
What is it that you film when you film a spirit? I was brought up to believe that spirits do not exist. Years of research on an afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult taught me the limits of such
South America
Essay film
Religion / Belief / Faith
Reflexivity
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
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
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
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