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Films
4 Films
Country
“Brazil”
x
Keywords
“Dance Theatre Performance”
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Series
“0”
x
Status
“A”
x
films with a digital version
3
Region
Latin America
1
South America
3
Southern Africa
1
Country
Angola
1
Brazil
4
x
Keywords
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
4
x
Festivals / Carnival
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
1
Directors
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Mansu, Marcia
1
Opipari, Carmen
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Series
not set
4
x
Country of production
Brazil
2
France
1
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1990
1
1997
1
2014
1
2022
1
Status
Film list
Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland
1997
52
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Timbert
Carmen Opipari
.
In the divine Afro Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children who introduce and guide us to this world. The children play
South America
Children / Young people
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Possession
Ritual
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
Cine Rabeca
2022
55
‘
Directed by
Marcia Mansu
.
Time dimensions emerge from the relation between the visible and the imagined, between memory and the experience of the present. A unique place emerges through the entanglement of music and archive
Latin America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
The Storyteller
1990
50
‘
Student
Directed by
John Paul Davidson
.
Unaware of the written word until the 1950s, the Waura tribe who live in the headwaters of the Xingu river in Brazil still practise the art of storytelling. Tribal storyteller Aruta recounts one of
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Religion / Belief / Faith