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This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...
This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...
The Wodabee follow their herds across the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon in search of pasture. The droughts that have ravaged the Sahel since the late 1960s have devastated Wodaabe cattle...
Focuses on the Lau people of Lau lagoon in the Solomon Islands. They live on artificial islands near the island of Malaita, islands built on coral rubble. The Lau moved to them in an attempt to escape the...
Follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. It focuses on continuity and change in...
The Mursi are an unadministered tribe living in a remote corner of Ethiopia and practising a remarkable form of democracy. A tribe without chiefs or leaders, they reach their political decisions in formal...
Follows a draught-induced migration of the Mursi people from their traditional territory in the Omo valley of Ethiopia to the Mago valley, about 50 miles away. This migration has brought them into contact...
Filmed in south-east China (near Wuxi in Jiangsu province) follows the daily life of three Han peasant families living in communes. Concerned with the discontinuities the older generation have faced since...
Filmed in two Han communities around the city of Wuxi in south-east China. Looks at the new emphasis on material incentives after years of Maoist austerity. Four women sing ‘we exchanged our chickens for a...
A study of the 500 Kwegu and 5000-strong Mursi, two tribes in south-east Ethiopia whose ways of life have become totally interdependent. Depicts the almost feudal relationship between the tribes, whereby...
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