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Films
2 Films
Region
“West Africa”
x
Keywords
“Music Ethnomusicology”
and
“Ritual”
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Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
1
short films
1
Region
West Africa
2
x
Country
Cote d’Ivoire
1
Ghana
1
Nigeria
1
Keywords
Everyday Life
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
2
x
Directors
Esteva, Jordi
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Speed, Frank
1
Series
not set
2
Country of production
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Spain
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1984
1
2015
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
Komian
2015
72
‘
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
Four years after the filming of “Return to the Land of Souls”, about the rituals of trance and possession, the narrator travels to Ivory Coast in search of a priestess possessed by the Spirit of
West Africa
Possession
Ritual
Music / Ethnomusicology
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual