''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
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IDFA Award for best First Appearance (1999)
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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
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