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.

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

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...

Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world and is also plagued by numerous terrorist organiz...
While no wrestling is actually depicted, Atilogivu: The Story of a Wrestling Match documents gymnast...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

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...

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...

Commemorative celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Niger filmed in December 1961 and ...

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 follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...

At a dusty crossroads in the desert city of Niamey, Niger, a crippled beggar is sitting in his wheel...

Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger...

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

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

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

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...