MancalaGames/List: Films

List of Films showing Mancala Games

 Title  Year  Director  Distributor  Running Time   Languages  Description 
 httpTwins of Mankala  2006  Jason DaSilva  In Face Films  11 Minutes  English  Kid culture and socialization in Kenya and the USA 
 httpSheWrite  2005  Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar  Indian Documentary Producers Association   55 Minutes  Tamil  Filmed poetry - in a scene a mother is playing Pallanguzhi with her daughter 
 httpI Heart Huckabees  2004  David O. Russell  Fox Searchlight  106 Minutes  English, French, German, Spanish  Anarchic comedy with interesting Mancala scene 
 httpPlanet Wissen: Brettspiele - Spass seit Jahrtausenden  2004  Christoph Teves and Claudia Kracht  WDR/SWR  58 Minutes  German  Documentary on board games claiming that Mancala was played in 2000 BC in Egypt 
 The Game of Oware  2003  Oliver Oguntade  (?)  20 Minutes  English  Interviews with members of the Ugandan Omweso team, various Oware champions, and Seth and Glenda of the Oware Society in England 
 No Seed  2002  Howard and Mitzi Allen  HAMA Productions  90 Minutes  English  Dramatic thriller which parallels a Warri game 
 Sports, Society, and Self  1983  (?)  Wisconsin Educational Television Network by Positive Image Productions  15 Minutes  English  Awele documentary (Baoule, West Africa) 
 httpBaga (Westafrika, Guineaküste) - Mankalla-Spiel  1960  Horst Luz and Waldemar Herz  IWF (Göttingen)  11 Minutes  Silent (German)  Documentary on Baga children playing Mancala in Guinea 
 httpLatuko  1955 (filmed in 1950)  Edgar Monsanto Queeny  American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)  49 Minutes  English, German  Scene with men playing Ekonda in Sudan 

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