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Films
5 Films
Keywords
“Nomads and Nomadism”
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Series
“0”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
1
films available on demand
1
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
2
Middle and Near East
2
Country
Afghanistan
1
China
1
Uganda
2
Yemen
1
Keywords
Disasters
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
2
Herding
3
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Myths / Fairy tales
1
Nomads and Nomadism
5
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Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Trade
1
Directors
Asch, Timothy
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Entell, Peter
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
1
Newman, David
1
Sorensen, Richard
1
Series
not set
5
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Country of production
Australia
2
Spain
1
Switzerland
1
United States
3
Year of production
1970
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1972
1
1978
1
1988
1
2016
1
Status
Film list
Depending on Heaven
1988
56
‘
Directed by
Peter Entell
.
The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey
Central Asia and Far East
Environment
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Everyday Life
Nawi
1970
20
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
This classic ethnographic documentary, by the renowned filmmaking team of David and Judith MacDougall, explores the nomadic life of the Jie of Uganda. During the dry season the Jie leave their
East Africa
Herding
Music / Ethnomusicology
Nomads and Nomadism
Socotra, the Island of Djinns
2016
64
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
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The film is the story of a journey across the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra is isolated during the monsoon season, when it is impossible to land on it. This
Middle and Near East
Myths / Fairy tales
Nomads and Nomadism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Trade
Sons of Haji Omar
1978
58
‘
Directed by
Timothy Asch
Asen Balikci
David Newman
Richard Sorensen
.
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakenkhel, a Pashtun tribal group in northeastern Afghanistan. Concentrating within one family, the film draw sharp, colourful portraits of the protagonists
Middle and Near East
Everyday Life
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
To Live With Herds
1972
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine.
East Africa
Nomads and Nomadism
Disasters
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy