''Between two worlds'' (original title: ''Zwischen zwei Welten'') is a 1999

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

by director

Bettina Haasen Dr. Bettina Haasen (1969) is a German communication scientist and film director. She studied African Languages and Political Sciences and completed her PhD in 2018. She worked in the field of conflict transformation and media in West Africa and T ...

. The film focuses on the conversations between director Haasen and members of the nomadic Woodabe tribe in Nigeria. The documentary has an

ethnographical Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

approach.

Awards

* IDFA Award for best First Appearance (1999) *

FIPRESCI The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

Prize (1999)

References

External links

''Between two worlds'' documentary online
* German documentary films 1999 films 1999 documentary films Anthropology documentary films Documentary films about Nigeria 1990s German films {{ethnography-stub