Forest of the Dancing Spirits (2013)
• November 29th, 2013 • 1h 44min
Documentary
Overview
“In the beginning, women lived apart, unaware of the existence of men. Until one day, when the first woman, Toli, who was brave and adventurous traveled deep into the forest. Toli discovered solitary creatures with big muscles who knew how to climb trees and harvest wild honey. When Toli tasted their honey, she thought they should all live together….” That is how one of the creation stories of the Aka people from the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin goes. Akaya, Kengole, Dibota and their friends and family are hunters-gatherers (and also great story-tellers) who guide us through their world. They explain their origins, myths, and the very spiritual meaning of life.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Uncle Yanco
Released on: 1967-10-01
Documentary
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by he...
Pat XO
Released on: 2013-07-09
Documentary
This documentary profiles the life and career of Pat Summitt, the NCAA's winningest basketball coach...
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime
Released on: 2014-06-09
Documentary
Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to re...
Rate It X
Released on: 1986-10-21
Documentary
Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men on...
A Body Like Mine
Released on: 2023-12-14
Documentary
Through post-porn, performance and wrestling, Puck tries to figure out her place in the world.
The Salt Mines
Released on: 1990-10-01
Documentary
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
The Transformation
Released on: 1996-06-21
Documentary
Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. ...
Monk with a Camera
Released on: 2014-03-24
Documentary
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...
Free Tibet
Released on: 1998-09-11
Documentary, Music
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
Journey to Somewhere
Released on: 2021-11-23
Documentary
A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing o...
Grandfather Sky
Released on: 1993-01-01
Documentary, TV Movie, Drama
A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attend...
Ouaga Girls
Released on: 2017-08-25
Documentary
A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...
Microcosmos
Released on: 1996-09-06
Documentary
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...
Allies
Released on: 1983-10-19
Documentary
ALLIES is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of t...
Liberators Take Liberties
Released on: 1992-02-22
Documentary
Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...
Jesus Camp
Released on: 2006-09-15
Documentary
Jesus Camp is a Christian summer camp where children hone their "prophetic gifts" and are schooled i...
Turtles Are Always Home
Released on: 2016-02-15
Documentary, Drama
I left Lebanon in 2006. For the past 10 years I lived in 7 countries, 10 cities, and 21 homes. I sle...
These Hands
Released on: 1993-09-12
Documentary
A day in the life of Mozambican women refugees working in a quarry outside Dar es Salaam.
Meat Joy
Released on: 1964-05-29
Documentary
"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...