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Films
6 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Health Healthcare Healing”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
6
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films available on demand
3
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
South America
1
South-East Asia
2
Southern Africa
1
West Africa
1
Country
Bolivia
1
Ghana
1
Indonesia
2
South Africa
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Development projects
2
Family / Kinship
1
Health / Health care / Healing
6
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Political Activists
1
Prison
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
3
Directors
Colucci, Erminia
3
Kurutuac, Judith
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Australia
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
United Kingdom
6
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United States
1
Year of production
1974
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1989
1
2008
1
2015
1
2021
2
Status
Film list
Born
2008
56
‘
Directed by
Andy Lawrence
Judith Kurutuac
.
*Our hope is to create a magical-real environment in which to go beyond the limits of our historical perspective on childbirth and its culturally bound rites, and to demonstrate an emotionally
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Family / Kinship
Children / Young people
Breaking the Chains
2015
64
‘
Student
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and
South-East Asia
Prison
Health / Health care / Healing
Political Activists
Development projects
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
‘
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Heal the Whole Man
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Paul Robinson
.
The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
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