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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Squatter Settlements Homelessness”
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Series
“0”
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Status
“A”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
1
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South Asia
1
South-East Asia
1
Western Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Ethiopia
1
France
1
India
1
Italy
1
Philippines
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
2
Family / Kinship
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Migration
2
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Reflexivity
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
1
Socioeconomic conditions
2
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
6
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Urban
2
Directors
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
MacDougall, David
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
van Lanker, Laurent
1
Series
not set
6
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Country of production
Australia
2
Belgium
1
Italy
1
Japan
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1979
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2000
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2006
1
2008
1
2011
1
2017
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Status
Film list
Celso and Cora
2000
109
‘
Directed by
Gary Kildea
.
The film is about one family who live in the slums of Manila. Gary Kildea and a Filipino collaborator enter this family’s life, filming them as they eat, as they care for their children, as they work
South-East Asia
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Family / Kinship
Urban
Gandhi’s Children
2008
185
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court
South Asia
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Kalès
2017
63
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Laurent van Lanker
.
A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell. An intimate and inside perspective of the ‘jungle’ of Calais, evoked through a polyphony of bodies, tales, and
Western Europe
Migration
Refugees / Displaced populations
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Participatory / Collaborative methods
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
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Theatre Girls
1979
57
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Pollack
.
The “Theatre Girls Club” is a hostel for homeless, destitute and alcoholic women in Soho, London. It is run by six paid workers and it is the only hostel in London which takes any women at any
British-Irish Isles
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Socioeconomic conditions
Gender Role and Identity