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RAI FILM

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New Images 1964 27‘

Directed by Ulli Beier Frank Speed .

The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the

West Africa Art / Artists / Artisans Religion / Belief / Faith Archival material / Museum displays

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Nkabom: A little medicine A little prayer 2021 79‘

Werbner Award Directed by Erminia Colucci .

A mother is caring for her son at a healing shrine on the edge of a village in the central belt of Ghana. In another village, a father has taken his son to several Christian and traditional healers

West Africa Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith

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Nodas. Launeddas at the time of crisis. 2015 29‘

Intangible Culture Directed by Umberto Cao Andrea Mura .

Dating back 3000 years to the Nuragic civilisation on Sardinia, ‘launeddas’ are wind instruments that testify to contacts from across the Mediterranean. Although they nearly vanished in the 1960s, in

Western Mediterranean Music / Ethnomusicology Festivals / Carnival Intergenerational relations

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Nuba Wrestling 1991 42‘

Directed by Rolf Husmann Werner Sperschneider .

The weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum usually take place between Northern and Southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity in a

North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Gender Role and Identity Urban Sport