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.

How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, poli...

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, ...

Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...

Filmed in May 1971 in Niger, this short documentary records a possession ritual performed by the Sim...

Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about the...

Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was establishe...
Report on an expedition through South and Southeast Africa.

Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Nige...

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...

This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific resear...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...

An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...

For months filmmaker Thierry Knauff lived with the Cameroonian tribe, the Baka. This is his document...

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...