Disappearing World: The basques of Santazi (1987)
• June 10th, 1987 • 0h 52min
Documentary
Overview
This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. The film is the only Disappearing World film made in western Europe and it focuses on the continuity and change in the community. This film shows the rationality behind the choice the villagers are making.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Kids On Ice
Released on: 2014-10-21
Documentary
Quiet towns across rural Australia are in the grip of an Ice epidemic. Major international drug cart...
Liyana
Released on: 2017-07-15
Animation, Documentary
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dang...
Microcosmos
Released on: 1996-09-06
Documentary
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
The River Runner
Released on: 2021-08-25
Documentary, Adventure
Legendary kayaker Scott Lindgren attempts to complete an extreme, unprecedented whitewater expeditio...
Antoine de Caunes : la vie rêvée d'un enfant du rock
Released on: 2025-11-25
Documentary
Documentary on Antoine de Caunes, a French television presenter, comedian, actor, journalist, writer...
Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood
Released on: 2024-02-25
Documentary, Music
Hollywood film music has its roots in Europe. Three composers who fled war and National Socialism to...
Le Temps de cerveau disponible
Released on: 2010-03-17
Documentary
Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....
Tokyo Phoenix
Released on: 2017-05-20
Documentary, History, TV Movie
In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary
A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC dram...
Hot House
Released on: 2006-05-04
Documentary
In a candid and unflinching portrait of Palestinian prisoners, Shimon Dotan takes viewers inside the...
Malartic
Released on: 2024-02-28
Documentary, Drama
Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...
In My Genes
Released on: 2009-04-01
Drama, Documentary
Agnes may not seem like someone with much to laugh about. For one thing, she has albinism - a lack o...
The Biggest Little Fish You've Never Seen
Released on: 2024-06-26
Documentary
At only twelve inches long, the menhaden are a keystone species in the East Coast's marine ecosystem...
Modern Life
Released on: 2008-10-29
Documentary
For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He a...
The Society of the Spectacle
Released on: 1974-05-01
Documentary
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Canada Vertical
Released on: 2023-10-28
Documentary, Adventure
After years of preparation, a team of highly motivated Quebeckers set out on one of the longest wild...
Exergo
Released on: 2024-05-04
Documentary, Drama
Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...
Bamboo Theatre
Released on: 2019-09-22
Documentary, Music
This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...
Yakuza and Constitution
Released on: 2016-01-02
Documentary, Drama, Crime
Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza...