A seven-day initiation ceremony is documented in which two women undergo ritual healing following a diagnosis of spirit possession, presented without narration, intertitles, or explanatory commentary.

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...

How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, poli...

The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, ...

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

For decades, the countries of the African Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploita...

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

Estonia's first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, th...

Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...

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

This documentary offers an overview of French scientific research in Africa French scientific resear...

Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about the...

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

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...

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...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...

The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her...