Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

Film list

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Pride of Place – Observations of lives of girls at a Public School 1976 59‘

Directed by Dorothea Gazidis Kimona Landseer Kim Longinotto .

A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned

British-Irish Isles Children / Young people Education / Knowledge Transmission Gender Role and Identity

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The Shilluk of Southern Sudan 1976 52‘

Directed by Chris Curling .

This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard’s 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk.

North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Social Organisation

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The Wedding Camels 1976 108‘

Directed by Judith MacDougall David MacDougall .

Also about individuals from the Turkana in north-western Kenya (see ‘Lorang’s Way’ and ‘A Wife Among Wives’), this film chronicles a series of events which surround the marriage of Lorang’s

East Africa Family / Kinship Marriage Animals Herding