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Little Waterfall

Synopsis
Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about twenty households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient system, known locally as qanat, which consists of a 1,500-year old Byzantine water tunnel, 520 metres long. However, decades of migration and family conflicts have caused the tunnel’s maintenance to be ignored. Joshka Wessel’s film explores the processes involved in the rehabilitation of the village’s traditional water tunnel system.
Language
Arabic (Syria)
Country
Netherlands
Year of release
2003
Subjects
Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
Keywords
Syria; water supply; hydropolitics

Credits

Director
Joshka Wessels

Distribution Formats

Type
DVD
Format
Region 0 PAL
Price
£50.00
Availability
Sale
Duration/Size
52 minutes
Year
2012

Distributor

Name

Royal Anthropological Institute

Contact
Susanne Hammacher (Film Officer)
Email
film@therai.org.uk
Web
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Phone
020 7387 0455
Fax
020 7388 8817
Address
50 Fitzroy Street
London
W1T 5BT
Notes
The Institute sells more than 250 anthropology and ethnology titles on video and DVD, including some produced by students and staff of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. There is also a large library of internationally produced film and video productions from which items may be borrowed within the UK.

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