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.
An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republ...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, a...

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

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...

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

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

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

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...

Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...

Taking the form of a travel diary of a television journalist, this documentary tells about the life ...

Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people ...

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

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