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.
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
For months filmmaker Thierry Knauff lived with the Cameroonian tribe, the Baka. This is his document...
Commemorative celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Niger filmed in December 1961 and ...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. ...
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally ...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed i...
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée...
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then t...
A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Nige...
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger...
This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific resear...