In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of the 1930s.
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride ...
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for...
When Lena and Ulli start the engine of their old Land Rover, Lady Terés, they have a plan: to drive ...
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visi...
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...
The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...
Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary...
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. ...
A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Nige...
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed i...
Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...
In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...
A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-squar...
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...