Films 35 Films Region "Western Europe" x films with a digital version 15 short films 20 films available on demand 4 Region British-Irish Isles 3 Central Africa 1 Central Europe 2 Eastern Europe and Baltic States 1 North America 1 South-East Europe 2 West Africa 1 Western Europe 35 x Country Belgium 4 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 Cameroon 1 Denmark 1 France 11 Germany 6 Ghana 1 Hungary 1 Italy 3 Netherlands 1 Spain 1 Switzerland 4 The Netherlands 3 United Kingdom 6 United States 1 not set 1 Keywords Alternative culture 2 Animals 2 Archaeology 1 Archival material / Museum displays 2 Art / Artists / Artisans 4 Children / Young people 1 Collective / Community identity 2 Education / Knowledge Transmission 1 Education / Knowledge transmission 1 Elderly people 3 Ethnofiction 2 Family / Kinship 3 Festivals / Carnival 5 Folklore 4 Food 1 Health / Health care / Healing 2 Herding 3 History 2 Hunting / Gathering / Fishing 2 Informant-researcher relationship 1 Intergenerational relations 1 LGBTQI* 1 Labour 3 Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy 2 Life Story / Life History 2 Material Culture 2 Migration 5 Music / Ethnomusicology 3 Participatory / Collaborative methods 1 Personal Narrative 1 Political Activists 1 Reflexivity 2 Refugees / Displaced populations 1 Religion / Belief / Faith 3 Reproduction (biology) 1 Ritual 1 Rural 6 Science / Technology 1 Sex / Sexuality 3 Social Change 2 Social participation 1 Socioeconomic conditions 3 Squatter Settlements / Homelessness 1 Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 1 Trade 1 Travellers / Roma 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 1 Directors Ahmed, Akbar 1 Asare-Nyako, Afua 1 Brewer, Teri F. 1 Day, Mike 1 Goldberg, Claudia 1 Grootheest, Sjoerd van 1 Grégoire, Charlotte 1 Hann, Amelia 1 Heer, Madelief de 1 Hirl, Alexander 1 Horat, Thomas 1 Kezich, Giovanni 1 Kriszio, Janina 1 Langhorst, Insa 1 MacDougall, David 1 Mai, Nick 2 Marcus, Alan 1 Meyknecht, Steef 1 Mora, Alba 1 Mora, Yves 1 Papenbrook, Jana 1 Rens, Maarten 1 Sanmartí, Anna 1 Schillaci, Rossella 1 Sonderegger, Ramona 1 Straube, Anna 1 Trentini, Michele 5 Woodhead, Leslie 1 de Bromhead, Toni 3 van Lanker, Laurent 1 Series Carnival King of Europe 5 Caught in a Web 3 Disappearing World Series 1 Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film 9 National Film and Television School 1 not set 16 Country of production Australia 1 Belgium 2 France 2 Germany 4 Italy 7 Netherlands 3 Spain 1 Switzerland 2 United Kingdom 16 United States 2 not set 1 Year of production 1985 3 1987 1 1991 1 1993 1 1996 1 2000 1 2005 1 2007 1 2008 2 2009 5 2010 4 2011 3 2014 2 2015 2 2016 5 2017 2 Film list André and Nándi 2000 30' Directed by Charlotte Grégoire. Hungarian-born André Reinitz only discovered his Jewish identity when he moved to Brussels at the age of ten. Since then, in spite of the silence of his parents, he has become involved in the Jewish Western Europe Eastern Europe and Baltic States Religion / Belief / Faith Music / Ethnomusicology Life Story / Life History The Basques of Santazi 1987 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead. *In her book 'The Circle of Mountains' Sandra Ott provided a fascinating analysis of social reciprocity (...) The film highlights the village's contemporary dilemmas and thereby complements rather Western Europe Herding Social Change Rural The Bear Chase 2009 7' Directed by Michele Trentini. In the Catalan-speaking southern France, a proper “Bear Chase”, of the kind that was once popular throughout Europe, has been revived in a carnival context. This film is part of **Carnival Western Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Beautiful Dachau 2008 30' Directed by Alan Marcus. Beautiful Dachau is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually. Western Europe History Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage War / Conflict / Reconciliation Breeding Cells 2009 39' Directed by Anna Straube. Breeding Cells is a film about a reproductive laboratory. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There Western Europe Reproduction (biology) Science / Technology Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.0 2011 38' Directed by Michele Trentini Giovanni Kezich. Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked Western Europe South-East Europe Central Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore Changes 2010 30' Directed by Afua Asare-Nyako. Kwabena wants to move back to Ghana, the country he left more than 30 years ago. This film shows one of the many journeys that he has to take in preparation for his return. It explores the motives West Africa Western Europe Migration A Donation to the Museum 2015 25' Directed by Teri F. Brewer. Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they North America Western Europe Archaeology Archival material / Museum displays Easy Life 1996 30' Directed by Amelia Hann. This film is about a Breton woman and her family, their vision of life, and their clash with the French state which marked them as 'terrorists'. Western Europe Political Activists Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Extended Family 2016 31' Directed by Ramona Sonderegger. This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to Western Europe LGBTQI* Family / Kinship Sex / Sexuality Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy Faith 2010 30' Directed by Insa Langhorst. Together with a Pentecostal youth group, teenagers Colin and Salo are on a mission trip to East Germany preaching the word of God. On the streets of Wismar they experience the highs and lows of what Western Europe Children / Young people Religion / Belief / Faith Ghetto PSA 2016 15' Directed by Rossella Schillaci. Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not Western Europe Music / Ethnomusicology Migration Education / Knowledge Transmission The Gilles of La Louvière and the Chinels of Fosses-la-Ville 2014 9' Directed by Michele Trentini. In the Catholic, French-speaking part of Belgium, monumental, all-encompassing masquerades take place in the middle of Lent. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD 6 - RITUAL Western Europe Folklore Festivals / Carnival The Guga Hunters of Ness 2010 59' Directed by Mike Day. This film follows a vanishing community’s beloved and unique tradition. The Gaelic speakers of Lewis and Scotland are the only people in the EU exempt from a ban on hunting gannets, but they are Western Europe Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Animals Ritual Heart of the Village 1985 52' Directed by Toni de Bromhead. The second film of the Caught in the Web trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Western Europe British-Irish Isles Rural Socioeconomic conditions A Hospice in Amsterdam 2005 62' Directed by Steef Meyknecht. At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die. Western Europe Health / Health care / Healing Elderly people In a State of Dress 2010 21' Directed by Madelief de Heer. Filmed in Walcheren, a region in the south-west of the Netherlands, this film tells of the lived experience of wearing regional dress. Once worn by the whole community, today this complex attire is Western Europe Material Culture Elderly people Intergenerational relations Je ne suis pas moi-même 2009 50' Directed by Alba Mora Anna Sanmartí. Shot in Cameroon and Brussels, 'Je ne suis pas moi-même' examines the complex network surrounding the international market of African antiquities, and the contradictions in a European art market Central Africa Western Europe Art / Artists / Artisans Trade 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 Kalès 2017 63' Directed by Laurent van Lanker. A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell. An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of bodies, tales, and Western Europe Migration Refugees / Displaced populations Squatter Settlements / Homelessness Participatory / Collaborative methods Leyssart 2007 30' Directed by Alexander Hirl. Living among 8,000 animals in the South of France, Thérèse and Dominique live their passion as herders and breeders. Their philosophy of life makes us reflect on the nature of relationships between Western Europe Animals Herding Family / Kinship The Log Rafters of Lake Aegeri 2016 29' Directed by Thomas Horat. Aegeri, in a remote part of Switzerland, is one of the few lakes in Central Europe where professional log rafters can still be found. This film is based on the gentle observation of the work of a Western Europe Material Culture Labour Rural Making it Big in Berlin 2009 24' Directed by Claudia Goldberg. In Berlin, where low rents and space for creative ideas are still available, self-employed workers live the alternative to a nine-to-five-job. A sewing café owner, a freelance journalist and two Western Europe Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans Read Me 2008 29' Directed by Janina Kriszio. Reading traditionally played an important role for German (self-)identification. In 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils are lacking basic reading skills, giving rise to Western Europe Education / Knowledge transmission Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire 2011 53' Directed by Yves Mora. Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together Western Europe Alternative culture Art / Artists / Artisans The Silvesterchläuse of Hundwil 2014 12' Directed by Michele Trentini. The old Julian New Year’s Eve on January 13th is still observed and celebrated in some Reformed communities in Outer Appenzell in Switzerland. This film is part of **Carnival King of Europe DVD Western Europe Festivals / Carnival Folklore The Silvesters of Urnäsch 2011 13' Directed by Michele Trentini. A celebration of mountain wilderness is all too evident in the costumes of the Silvesters of Urnäsch in Outer Appenzell, particularly in their “Pretty/Ugly” version. This film is part of Western Europe Festivals / Carnival Smoke 1991 28' Directed by Maarten Rens. The film deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town twelve miles north of Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern Western Europe Hunting / Gathering / Fishing Food Archival material / Museum displays Talking to Each Other 1985 52' Directed by Toni de Bromhead. The third film of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Western Europe British-Irish Isles Rural Socioeconomic conditions Tempus de Baristas 1993 100' Directed by David MacDougall. This film depicts the characters, and social dilemmas of three generations of Sardinian mountain shepherds. Although born roughly 20 years apart, Franchiscu (62), his son Pietro (17) and their Western Europe Herding Social Change Family / Kinship Rural Travel 2016 63' Directed by Nick Mai. (This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see 'Travel - double screen version'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Informant-researcher relationship Reflexivity Travel (double screen) 2016 63' Directed by Nick Mai. (This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see 'Travel'). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was Western Europe Sex / Sexuality Labour Migration Ethnofiction Reflexivity Vasile Nedea 2009 43' Directed by Sjoerd van Grootheest. The film tells the story of Vasile Nedea, a Romanian gypsy musician an Amsterdam. Due to his former illegal status there have been times in which he was forced to show his skills whilst busking the Western Europe Travellers / Roma Music / Ethnomusicology A Village Heritage 1985 52' Directed by Toni de Bromhead. The first of the **Caught in the Web** trilogy, which compares and contrast aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and a French village in Provence, Villes-sur-Auzon, Vauclause. Western Europe British-Irish Isles Socioeconomic conditions Rural Why is Mr W. Laughing? 2017 76' Directed by Jana Papenbrook. Jana Papenbroock with Horst Wässle, Michael Gerdsmann, Bernhard Krebs WHY IS MR W. LAUGHING? is a portrait of three members of a community of artists with different disabilities. Rather than Western Europe Art / Artists / Artisans Collective / Community identity Elderly people Health / Health care / Healing Life Story / Life History Personal Narrative Social participation