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  1. Breaking the Yard (2018)

    Director
    Richard Werbner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 21 minutes), £20.00

    A documentary following the court hearings and troubled affairs of a quarrelsome young couple, a stay-at-home farmer and his police constable, town-savvy wife. They claim to be still in love. But when the...

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  2. Bitter Money (2017)

    Director
    Bing Wang
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 152 minutes), $35.000

    BITTER MONEY documents China’s rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou, one of the busiest cities of eastern...

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  3. Carnival King of Europe Collection (2017)

    aka: Carnival, King of Europe

    Director
    Michele Trentini; Giovanni Kezich
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 562 minutes), £200.00

    Every winter ancient rituals are performed throughout Europe to secure prosperity and good harvests. These rituals are at the heart of what is known today as the Carnival celebrations. Led by anthropologist...

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  4. My Eyes As a Stranger (2017)

    Director
    Toni de Bromhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Story about the friendship between an English filmmaker and Nicola, a Sicilian ex-gangster who lives in Florence. The documentary moves to and fro between a street of ill repute and the field where Nicola...

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  5. Caught in a Web (2017)

    aka: Caught in a Web Trilogy

    Director
    Toni de Bromhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (52 minutes (each film)), £50.00

    Three films comparing and contrasting aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and in Villes-sur-Auzon, a French village in Provence. The first film in the trilogy is A VILLAGE HERITAGE...

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  6. Abraham and Sarah (2017)

    Director
    Ivo Strecker
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    In the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the...

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  7. Living with Boko Haram (2016)

    Director
    Trond Waage; Mouzamou Ahamadou
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    DVD (37 minutes), £50.00

    Militant Islamic group Boko Haram’s violent insurgency is approaching Mogde, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, where Antoniette lives. In Kolbotn, near Oslo (Norway), lives her eldest son Vakote,...

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  8. Swiss Yodelling - Thirty Years Later (2015)

    Producer
    Hugo Zemp
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 71 minutes + 21 minutes of extras), $340.00

    Thirty years after the first four documentaries, this film continues the research of the particular yodel style of the Muotatal, a Swiss alpine valley. In the 1980s, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp found the...

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  9. Between Memories (2015)

    Director
    Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 34 minutes), £15.00

    Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the commandos...

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  10. Goshen (2015)

    aka: Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Running People

    Director
    Dana Richardson; Sarah Zentz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £110.00

    Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....

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