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Films
15 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Migration”
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Series
“0”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
15
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short films
4
films available on demand
1
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Central America
1
Central Asia and Far East
1
Middle and Near East
3
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
South Asia
1
Western Europe
3
Western Mediterranean
3
Country
Afghanistan
1
Bolivia
1
France
2
Greece
1
Israel
1
Italy
3
Japan
1
Mexico
1
Morocco
1
Nepal
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Ethnofiction
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Labour
6
Love
1
Migration
15
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Music / Ethnomusicology
2
Popular Culture
1
Possession
1
Reflexivity
2
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Sex / Sexuality
2
Socioeconomic conditions
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Urban
1
Directors
Baily, John
1
Brass, Anna
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kharel, Dipesh
1
Mai, Nick
2
Moore, Allen
1
Saito, Asami
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schlenker, Juana
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Tari, János
1
Werner, Louis
1
Series
not set
15
x
Country of production
Belgium
1
Bolivia
1
France
2
Germany
1
Hungary
1
Italy
3
Japan
1
Nepal
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1996
1
2002
1
2003
1
2004
1
2006
2
2007
1
2010
1
2011
1
2012
2
2013
1
2016
3
Status
Film list
37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
2006
85
‘
Directed by
Ben Hopkins
.
The Pamir Kirghiz are a tribe of some 2,000 people from the Pamir region of Central Asia. For the last 27 years they have lived in exile in Eastern Turkey. In 2005 an Anglo-Turkish film crew arrives
Middle and Near East
Film / Photography / Mass media
Animals
Migration
Distant Temple
2002
90
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between the Jews who emigrated
Middle and Near East
Migration
Religion / Belief / Faith
Fragments from the Past
2006
27
‘
Directed by
Vedide Kaymak
Hakan Demiralay
.
In the days before DVD and satellite television, the cinema was important to London’s Turkish speaking population as a place to meet and as a link with home. Eight individuals recount their
British-Irish Isles
Popular Culture
Migration
Film / Photography / Mass media
Ghetto PSA
2016
15
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
Jacob arrived in Italy alone from French Guinea when he was 11 years old. Today he is 27, and hip hop music is his whole world: it is his way to express dreams, hopes and frustrations, and to not
Western Europe
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Habilito – Debt for Life
2010
52
‘
Directed by
Chuck Sturtevant
.
This documentary explores many of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and lowland indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the system of debt
South America
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Labour
Leaving Greece
2013
79
‘
Directed by
Anna Brass
.
When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an application for asylum. So much is clear. Less well known, however is the fact that for 90% of all refugees, the Aegean is the
Western Mediterranean
Children / Young people
Migration
Love
Living with the Invisibles
2003
52
‘
Directed by
Dirk Dumont
.
When they emigrated to Europe in the 60’s and 70’s, Moroccans brought with them their culture and their “diseases” ( caused by the the jinn that inhabit some of them). In Europe, most North
North and Northeast Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Possession
Migration
Other Europe
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Rossella Schillaci
.
What happens to African migrants once granted political refugee status? In Turin, a northern Italian city, an abandoned clinic has been squatted by more than 200 refugees since December 2008. Khaled,
Western Mediterranean
Migration
Urban
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Pepe
2004
23
‘
Directed by
Juana Schlenker
.
Pepe is a Spanish immigrant who came to England more than forty years ago to work as a waiter. After working in several restaurants and hotels, he retired two years ago and now he fills his days with
British-Irish Isles
Migration
Elderly people
Playing with Nan
2012
88
‘
Directed by
Dipesh Kharel
Asami Saito
.
Playing with Nan is the story of a Nepali young man who migrated to work in a Nepali restaurant in northern Japan. The film explores his daily life at work and his family at home, which reflects
South Asia
Central Asia and Far East
Labour
Migration
Socioeconomic conditions
Scenes of Afghan Music: London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin
2007
97
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
Scenes of Afghan Music is Part IV of ‘A Quartet of Afghan Music Films’, made in the author’s personal “fieldwork movie” style. It reveals the diversity of music and dance practices in the
Middle and Near East
Music / Ethnomusicology
Migration
Collective / Community identity
Sea Boundary
2012
55
‘
Directed by
Rosella Schillaci
.
The film depicts the daily struggle of fishermen to earn a living in a harsh physical environment that brings out the social and economic tensions of modern society. Manning the Priamo are Cola, the
Western Mediterranean
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
A Sheepherder’s Homecoming
1996
40
‘
Directed by
Allen Moore
Louis Werner
.
This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It
North America
Central America
Migration
Labour
Travel
2016
63
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see ‘Travel – double screen version’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Travel (double screen)
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film uses a split-screen device throughout. For the single screen version see ‘Travel’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She knew that she was
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Reflexivity