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Films
5 Films
Region
“South-East Asia”
x
Keywords
“Family Kinship”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
3
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
South-East Asia
5
x
Country
China
1
Indonesia
1
Ireland
1
Myanmar
1
Philippines
2
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Family / Kinship
5
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Labour
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Marriage
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Ritual
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Urban
1
Directors
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Cai, Hua
1
Fox, James J.
1
Grossman, Alan
1
Htway, Aung Nwai
1
Kildea, Gary
1
O’Brien, Áine
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Yangon Film School
1
not set
3
Country of production
Australia
2
China
1
Ireland
1
Myanmar
1
Year of production
1988
1
1995
1
2000
1
2010
1
2012
1
Film list
Behind the Screen
2012
35
‘
Directed by
Aung Nwai Htway
.
A son dissects his parents’ marriage – they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the silver screen are a pretty accurate reflection of their
South-East Asia
Film / Photography / Mass media
Family / Kinship
Memory
Celso and Cora
2000
109
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
.
The film is about one family who live in the slums of Manila. Gary Kildea and a Filipino collaborator enter this family’s life, filming them as they eat, as they care for their children, as they work
South-East Asia
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Family / Kinship
Urban
Promise and Unrest
2010
79
‘
Directed by
Alan Grossman
Áine O’Brien
.
Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, ‘Promise and Unrest’ is
South-East Asia
British-Irish Isles
Family / Kinship
Labour
Migration
Linguistics / Language
Spear and Sword: a Payment of Bridewealth on the Island of Roti
1988
22
‘
Directed by
James J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
The film begins as the groom’s side gathers the animals and money for a bridewealth payment, and discusses problems that might arise in negotiating the exchange. In ritual silence, they walk to the
South-East Asia
Ritual
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality