Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds between them. Includes extensive use of Nuer music and poetry.
Estonia's first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, th...
The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (p...
The young goat herders from the cliff of Bandiagara practice on the stone drums of their ancestors. ...
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...
As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...
In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally ...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republ...
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride ...
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed i...
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing question...
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this et...
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the ...
The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her...
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at ...