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Films
4 Films
Region
“South Asia”
x
Keywords
“Social Change”
x
films with a digital version
4
short films
1
films available on demand
1
Region
South Asia
4
x
Country
India
2
Nepal
1
Pakistan
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Labour
1
Marriage
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Rural
1
Social Change
4
x
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
2
Urban
1
Directors
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
not set
2
Country of production
India
1
Pakistan
1
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1977
1
2005
1
2008
1
2020
1
Film list
The Golden Beach
2008
58
‘
Directed by
Hasse Wester
.
A small group of farmers belonging to the Halakki Gowda tribe live near a small beach in a valley in southern India. When the Swedish film maker Hasse Wester was first there twenty years ago the
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Rural
Social Change
Sherpas of Nepal
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Pattie Winter
.
Thami is a village 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas in the Kingdom of Nepal. As the film’s opening shots illustrate, in a type of filmic short-hand, Thami is composed of a patchwork of individual
South Asia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Labour
Marriage
Social Change
This Is A Majlis – A Sound Essay
2020
17
‘
Directed by
Timothy Cooper
Abeera Arif-Bashir
.
This short film is a multi-platform sound essay. It is primarily illustrated with still images, that conjure an atmosphere of intimacy and intensity of the majlis-e-aza, a mourning gathering central
South Asia
Music/Ethnomusicology
Urban
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
Social Change
Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim
2005
60
‘
Directed by
Dawa T Lepcha
Anna Balikci-Denjongpa
Asen Balikci
.
The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting,
South Asia
Social Change
Religion / Belief / Faith
Agriculture / Farming