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Films
3 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Food Water”
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Status
“A”
x
films with a digital version
1
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
3
x
films available on demand
3
Region
North and Northeast Africa
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Ethiopia
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Animals
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
1
Food / Water
3
x
Gender Role and Identity
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Rural
1
Directors
Burstin, Costanza
1
Gabrehiwot, Mitiku
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Series
Guardians of Productive Landscapes
1
Shorts Collection 2
1
not set
1
Country of production
Australia
1
Ethiopia
1
Germany
1
India
1
Year of production
2018
2
2019
1
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
Paani: of women and water
2018
22
‘
Student
Directed by
Costanza Burstin
.
Against the bleached sky of Rajasthan, we encounter the women of a small Muslim village as they engage in their work. Here, water binds their daily labour rituals: they collect and carry water in
South Asia
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Rural
Everyday Life
Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Lisa Palmer
.
For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border. Timor’s migratory wild honey bees challenge this division. In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are
South-East Asia
Animals
Food / Water
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing