Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

Film list

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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

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The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia 1983 30‘

Directed by J. Fox Timothy Asch Patsy Asch .

This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the

South-East Asia Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany Linguistics / Language Environment