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Films
10 Films
Region
“South Asia”
x
Keywords
“Children Young people”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
4
Region
South Asia
10
x
Country
Afghanistan
1
India
9
Keywords
Children / Young people
10
x
Collective / Community identity
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
6
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
2
Directors
Baily, John
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Engels, Claudia
1
MacDougall, David
5
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Roy, Rahul
1
Webster, Rachel
1
Series
Doon School Project
2
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
4
India
4
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
2000
1
2001
1
2002
1
2003
1
2005
1
2008
1
2012
1
2013
2
2018
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Child’s Eye
2018
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
The New Boys
2003
100
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The social dynamics of the group is the focus of this study of life in Foot House, one of Doon School’s dormitories for new boys. It begins a few days before the boys appear and shows them
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Collective / Community identity
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Ravi and Bhajay
2002
26
‘
Directed by
Rachel Webster
.
Street boys Ravi and Bhajay lead a tough life on the pavements of Mumbai in India. To get away from it, they visit the nearby holy city of Ujjain with the film-maker. But the call of life on the streets is still strong.
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Urban
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Some Alien Creatures
2005
74
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A film about the famous experimental, co-educational boarding school in South India, the Rishi Valley School, founded by the influential Indian thinker Krishnamurti. In this film about a progressive
South Asia
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Education / Knowledge Transmission
A Spark in Him
2008
28
‘
Directed by
Claudia Engels
.
‘A Spark in Him’ is a film about the life story of Sajay Kumar, a young man without arms who lives in a home for disabled children in Kerala, India, and studies at the College of Fine Arts. By
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Under the Palace Wall
2013
53
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel – a
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
When Four Friends Meet
2000
43
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Urban
With Morning Hearts
2001
110
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This film continues MacDougall’s long-term study of an elite boys’ boarding school in northern India. It focuses on a group of twelve-year-olds during their first year in one of the ‘houses’ for new
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission