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.
At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, a...
While no wrestling is actually depicted, Atilogivu: The Story of a Wrestling Match documents gymnast...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
A collage of daily life in Aq Kupruk builds from the single voice that calls the townspeople to pray...

How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, poli...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

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 ...

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

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

A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Nige...

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

Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...