Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).

“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first...

An actuality film showing a Buddhist festival in Kyoto. The procession includes Buddhist monks, geis...
Documentary about the inhabitants, both human and animal, of the Belgian Congo.
“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whi...
A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.
A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her...

With unprecedented access to the UN Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimat...
Report retracing the military campaigns of the Belgian colonial troops in Africa through geographica...

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...

A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Al...
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a ...
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song o...
A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, we...
Exploring individual responses to rapid social change, Cowboy and Maria in town follows the parallel...