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Films
10 Films
Region
“South-East Europe”
x
Series
“0”
x
films with a digital version
6
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
films available on demand
3
Region
Central Europe
1
Middle and Near East
1
South-East Europe
10
x
Western Europe
1
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Bulgaria
1
Cyprus
1
France
1
Greece
1
Italy
5
Romania
1
Spain
1
Syria
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
2
Family / Kinship
2
Festivals / Carnival
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
History
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Memory
1
Migration
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Political Activists
1
Post-communism
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
3
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Rural
1
Social Change
2
Socioeconomic conditions
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Bloching, Max
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Dukmak, Abd Alrahman
1
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Loizos, Peter
2
Loïzos, Peter
1
de Bromhead, Toni
2
Series
not set
10
x
Country of production
Bulgaria
1
France
2
Germany
1
Italy
1
United Kingdom
5
United States
1
Year of production
1974
1
1984
1
1985
1
1999
1
2001
1
2010
1
2015
2
2016
1
2020
1
Film list
In the Light of Memory
2010
40
‘
Directed by
Alyssa Grossman
.
‘In the Light of Memory’ explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of
South-East Europe
Memory
Post-communism
Journey into Europe
2015
122
‘
Directed by
Akbar Ahmed
.
In Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed, a world-renowned anthropologist, Islamic scholar, and filmmaker who the BBC has called “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam,” explores Islam
Central Europe
Western Europe
South-East Europe
History
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.
1999
56
‘
Directed by
Antonii Dontchev
.
Ephtim D., 73 years old, is a retired postman. He lives in Sofia with his wife Ghinka in a three room suburban apartment. As a socialist he feels confused by the ‘crazy’ democracy and the
South-East Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Post-communism
Socioeconomic conditions
My Eyes as a Stranger
1984
53
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
This film tells the story of the friendship between an English filmmaker and Nicola, a Sicilian ex-gangster who lives in Florence. The film moves to and fro between a street of ill repute, and the
South-East Europe
Gender Role and Identity
Processes
2016
23
‘
Directed by
Adriana Ferrarese
.
Like every year, Corigliano Calabro, a small village in the south of Italy, celebrates Easter: from the investiture of a man to embody Jesus during a night procession, to the passionate debates for
South-East Europe
Religion / Belief / Faith
Festivals / Carnival
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
‘
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
‘
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
A Town in Sicily
2015
120
‘
Directed by
Toni de Bromhead
.
Castellammare is a ‘high-density Mafia’ seaside town. Local government is infiltrated, its economy is stagnant and there is no future for its youth. A group of angry young Sicilians now wish to
South-East Europe
Political Activists
Unwritten Letters
2020
59
‘
Directed by
Max Bloching
Abd Alrahman Dukmak
.
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called Unwritten
South-East Europe
Middle and Near East
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Life Story / Life History