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• Adio kerida (Goodbye dear love), 82 min., 2002
  A personal journey about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba. Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba in search of the country's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them. Presents a lyrical journey into Cuba's Jewish past and present-day that is filled with painful goodbyes and a belief in the possibility of return and renewal. Behar addresses her goodbye to her native land, from which she departed as a child, before she developed her own memories. Her grandparents were Jewish emigrants to Cuba and hoped it would be their promised land. Like most Cuban Jews, they left Cuba and resettled in the United States, with only a small number of Jews remaining on the island. Interviews with Sephardic Jews in Cuba and Miami.
  
  
• An Initiation "kut" for a Korean shaman, 37 min., 1991
  A thirty-two-year-old woman tells of the events which led her to decide to become a shaman. Includes scenes from the two-day initiation. By anthropologist Laurel Kendall.
  
  
• Ball of Fire: Angry Goddess, 58 min, 1999.
  Ethnographic coverage of the Kerala South Indian ritual dance mudiyettu, in which men become possesed by the spirit of the goddess Bhadrakali
  
  
• Dhaminis of Jumla: Spirit Possession in Western Nepal, 38 min, 2000.
  Explores the ritual practice and social importance of spirit possession in the villages of Jumla, in western Nepal. The film focuses on two women, known as "dhaminis", and examinies the ways in which spirit possession makes them the centerpieces of religious life in their communities.
  
  
• Living Islam (6 cassettes), 300 min, 1993.
  v. 1. Foundations -- v. 2. Challenge of the past -- v. 3. Struggling with modernity -- v. 4. Paradise lies at the feet of the mother -- v. 5. Among the non-believers -- v. 6. Last crusade
  
  
• Women serving religion. 29 min., 1995.
  This program traces women's roles in religious tradition and what it means to be a woman in the three great religions today (including Islam). It also explores the cultural influences of feminism upon religious traditions and the beliefs regarding the ordination of women.
  
  
• Satya, a prayer for the enemy. 28 min., 1993.
  This film focuses on personal testimonies of Tibetan Buddhist nuns who have taken the lead in resistance to Chinese rule by staging courageous demonstrations for religious freedom and independence.
  
  
• The Return of Sarah's daughters, 56 min., 1997.
  Three Jewish women, Myriam Klotz, Rus Burdman, and Marcia Jarmel, discuss their relationship to Judaism.
  
  
• Thunderbolt, 105 min., 2000.
  This feature film focuses on Yinka from the Yoruba tribe and Ngozi, an Ibo, who meet in the National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria. A retelling of the Othello story in an African setting, the seeds of jealousy are planted when a friend of Yinka, suggests that Ngozi is having a secret affair because "Ibo are untrustworthy." An old man warns Ngozi, who is accused of having AIDS, that her death is imminent and will strike her like a thunderbolt.