A group of filmmakers travel to a Kolla community in Salta to film their folkways. We see all aspects of their life: farming, herding, cooking, football, and making music during a Pachamama festival. In the course of filming, the leader of the Kolla community changes the filmmakers' view of what the documentary should be, and at the end of their visit they are changed. "La vida se puede ir amasando, como el barro": As life goes along, it becomes more pliant, like clay. An announcement at the beginning of the film states that this is neither fiction nor documentary, but I'd say it's closer to documentary.

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

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

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

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...

On the night of 3 August 1996 a school of striped dolphins ran ashore near the village of Tuo on Nga...

The film follows a group of Nenets women gathering firewood in a snow-covered tundra. This film is p...

In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée...

Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo ...

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

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

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

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

As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central M...

Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was establishe...

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