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Doon School Chronicles
Directed by David MacDougall
David MacDougall’s long term visual study completed. The Doon School, located in Dehra Dun in Uttaranchal, is perhaps the most famous boys’ boarding school in India. Although it has sometimes...
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Dor, Low is Better
Directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn...
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The Double Walk of the Joaldunak
Directed by Michele Trentini
Joaldunak are “those who resound”, the great bell ringers heralding the Carnival parade between the twin villages of Ituren and Zubieta in the Basque-speaking Spanish Naffaroa. This film is part...
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Dream Girls
Directed by Jano Williams, Kim Longinotto
This award-winning film opens a door into the amazing world of the Takarazuka Revue, the all-female theatre troupe in Japan. Thousands of young women aspire to perform in the Revue’s...
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The Dream of Maelen
Directed by Eirik Sandberg
Arne Bakke Mælen lives alone on the small family farm he inherited on the edge of a fjord. The farm is no longer viable economically and, like many small farmers...
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Dreamcatcher
Directed by Kim Longinotto
A film set in Chicago about an inspirational woman who has defied her past and now rescues girls and young women from a life on the streets.
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Dreamland
Directed by Gema Juárez-Allen
This film explores the dreams and frustrations of camp squatters in Rio de Janeiro State, as, supported by the MST (Landless People’s Movement), they wait for permission to settle on...
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Drive it, Crash it, Paint it
Directed by James Bolchover
Kelzo grew up in Hulme and has been writing on walls, wrecked cars and other urban surfaces since 1984. But now that he is a ‘graffiti artist’ whose work is...
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The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the...
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Drugs & Prayers
Directed by Helene Basu
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new...
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Distant Temple
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...
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Duka’s Dilemma
Directed by Jean Lydall, Kaira Strecker
Filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Lydall has been making films with the Hamar community of southern Ethiopia since the 1970s. In 2001 she returned with her daughter and grandson to follow...
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Divorce Iranian Style
Directed by Kim Longinotto
This film is set in the Family Law Courts in central Tehran. The three main characters are Jamileh who punishes her husband for beating her, Ziba, a 16 year old...
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Diya
Directed by Judith MacDougall
A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of...
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Doctors of Two Worlds
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...
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Domov
Directed by Rosie Read
This film looks at the meaning of ‘home’ in the Czech Republic through the eyes of two women – one an old woman trying to assert her right to return...
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The everyday lives of a farmer and a fisherman in the Philippines, and their capacity to adapt to a changing natural environment and climate.
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Emails to My Little Sister
Directed by Solomon Mekonen
An autoethnographic phenomenology of blackness in Berlin via Ethiopia. The film explores the historical and ongoing relationship between the so-called West and Africa. A brother who lives north of the...
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Embera — the End of the Road
Directed by Brian Moser
The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed...
