In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed i...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
A collage of daily life in Aq Kupruk builds from the single voice that calls the townspeople to pray...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing question...
The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...
Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about the...
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride ...
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
A musical documentary woven around the endangered musical culture of the Rangdani Rabhas from Manikg...
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for...
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was establishe...