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Films
5 Films
Region
“Southern Africa”
x
Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
South America
1
Southern Africa
5
x
Country
Angola
1
Botswana
2
Brazil
1
South Africa
2
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Development projects
1
Family / Kinship
2
Festivals / Carnival
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Love
2
Marriage
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Directors
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Werbner, Richard
2
Series
not set
5
x
Country of production
Brazil
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
5
x
Year of production
1974
1
2008
1
2014
1
2016
1
2018
1
Film list
Body Games – Capoeira and Ancestry
2014
87
‘
Student
Directed by
Richard Pakleppa
Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Christine Dettmann
.
The film follows master Cobra Mansa and his friends in the search for the African roots of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. A powerful myth links Capoeira to a legendary Angolan game called Engolo
South America
Southern Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Festivals / Carnival
Breaking the Yard
2018
21
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
"Breaking-the-Yard" documents the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Caught in Between
2016
56
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Heal the Whole Man
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Paul Robinson
.
The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
Rough Aunties
2008
103
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
Jackie, Mildred, Eureka and Thuli are the women behind Bobbi Bear, a nonprofit organization based in Durban, South Africa, that counsels sexually abused children and works to bring their abusers to
Southern Africa
Socioeconomic conditions
Children / Young people
Development projects