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290 Land is Food
Land is Food (290)
14:00, Thursday 02nd July, Theatre B
- Director: Babette Koultchoumi (CAM)
- Year: 2008
- Run time: 43'
- Format: DVCAM, PAL
“Land is Food” is a portrait of some farming people of Bipare village, situated in northern Cameroon near the border with Chad. The film features Ruth Sogsirba her husband Moussa Kallam and the midwife Elisabeth Tansouabe.
Recent changes to customary land tenure as well as population pressures have made access to land increasingly precarious especially for some Bipare women. The film focuses on the everyday life of female farmers of Bipare and the social changes they have to negotiate as common property and communal land management is replaced by individual tenure.
About this Festival
Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland (RAI) since 1985, it is an itinerant festival that moves biennially from one university host to another, in association with local community and cultural organisations.
The festival was held from Wednesday July 1st to Saturday July 4th 2009, and included over 50 hours of screenings of new films, a major international conference, and a targeted selection of events focusing on anthropological ethics in filmmaking, youth participatory film, and archiving ethnographic film.
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