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Films
14 Films
Series
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films with a digital version
7
short films
5
Region
Australia
1
Central America
1
Central Europe
1
East Africa
2
Melanesia
1
Middle and Near East
1
North America
3
South America
1
South Asia
2
South-East Asia
1
South-East Europe
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Afghanistan
1
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
France
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
Mexico
1
Nigeria
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Spain
1
Uganda
2
United Kingdom
1
United States
3
Venezuela
1
Virtual Space
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Animation
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Development projects
1
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Herding
1
History
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Internet
1
Labour
2
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Material Culture
3
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Nomads and Nomadism
2
Political Activists
1
Possession
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Sport
1
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Fruzzetti, Lina
2
Grimshaw, Anna
1
Guzzetti, Alfred
1
Johnston, Ned
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Leach, Jerry
1
MacDougall, David
3
MacDougall, Judith
2
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Newman, David
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Singer, André
1
Sorensen, Richard
1
Speed, Frank
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Werner, Louis
1
Östör, Ákos
2
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Australia
3
Nigeria
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
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Year of production
1963
1
1972
1
1973
1
1974
1
1978
1
1984
1
1989
2
1996
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2005
1
2012
1
2013
1
2015
1
2016
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Festival Prize Category
Film list
At Low Tide
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has
North America
Material Culture
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
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
Seed and Earth
1989
36
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Alfred Guzzetti
Ned Johnston
Ákos Östör
.
Seed on Earth is a film about everyday life in rural Bangladesh (village of Janta, near Bishnupur town). It follows the daily schedule of two families and observes the complementary and difference of
South Asia
Rural
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
A Sheepherder’s Homecoming
1996
40
‘
Directed by
Allen Moore
Louis Werner
.
This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It
North America
Central America
Migration
Labour
Singing Pictures – Women Painters of Naya
2005
45
‘
Directed by
Lina Fruzzetti
Ákos Östör
.
For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya
South Asia
Material Culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Music / Ethnomusicology
Sons of Haji Omar
1978
58
‘
Directed by
Timothy Asch
Asen Balikci
David Newman
Richard Sorensen
.
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakenkhel, a Pashtun tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. Concentrating within one family, the film draw sharp, colourful portraits of the protagonists
Middle and Near East
Everyday Life
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Stockman’s Strategy
1984
52
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Education / Knowledge transmission
To Live With Herds
1972
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine.
East Africa
Nomads and Nomadism
Disasters
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
Jerry Leach
.
The film documents the transformation by the Trobriand Islanders of the game of cricket, first introduced by British missionaries into a highly distinctive political ritual. Shot in 1973-1974,
Melanesia
Sport
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Political Activists
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Virtual me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft
2013
11
‘
Directed by
Trent Monahan
Sarah Prothero
Jennifer Torson
.
‘Virtual Me’ examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within
North America
Gender Role and Identity
Animation
Internet
The Water Goddess and the Computer
1989
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Steven Lansing
.
The film demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by temple priests. A biologist and an anthropologist look at
South-East Asia
Infrastructure / Transport
Development projects
Environment
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change