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Films
2 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
available to watch on demand
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Country
“Ethiopia”
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Year of production
“2018”
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Status
“A”
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films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
2
x
films available on demand
2
x
Region
North and Northeast Africa
2
Western Europe
1
Country
Ethiopia
2
x
Germany
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Food / Water
1
Migration
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
1
Directors
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Mekonen, Solomon
1
Series
Decolonising Shorts
1
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
Country of production
Ethiopia
1
Germany
2
Year of production
2018
2
x
Status
Film list
Dancing Grass. Harvesting teff in the Tigrean highlands
2018
40
‘
Directed by
Mitiku Gabrehiwot
.
Dancing Grass is a film in the Guardians of Productive Landscapes series (editor Ivo Strecker). It captures the communal harvesting of teff among Tigreans of Northern Ethiopia. Teff, an ancient
North and Northeast Africa
Agriculture / Farming
Food / Water
Emails to My Little Sister
2018
35
‘
Directed by
Solomon Mekonen
.
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of
Western Europe
North and Northeast Africa
Migration
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Reflexivity