The region of Lake Turkana, located in Kenya and Ethiopia, is considered to be “the Cradle of Humankind”. Among other finds, primate fossils from millions of years ago have been discovered in the region. But what about the region’s modern inhabitants and their relationship to their environment? Iiris Härmä, whose previous work includes the award-winning Leaving Africa, had the chance of joining Helsinki University’s researchers, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares and Mar Cabeza, on their pre-pandemic trip to study the Daasanach people’s relationship to their environment through traditional animal tales. The researchers hope that storytelling would help to bridge the gap between people’s everyday lives and conservation efforts.

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A documentary detailing an indiscriminate terrorist attack that left 71 dead in Kenya.

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When his family tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group ...

Documentary on the Ethiopian orphanage ‘Toukoul’, filmed in Addis Ababa in December 2003

A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.
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Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...

Rat Brain is a documentary that highlights Dr. John D. Douglass and his team's research at Seattle P...

Sexual violence against women is a very effective weapon in modern warfare: instills fear and spread...

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every da...

The photographic record of an African expedition led by producer-explorer Armand Denis and his (very...

Examines the profound claim that most; if not all; of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can ...

Short documentary about the lives of three girls and the women who rescued them from retrogressive c...
"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirt...

Shot in Southern England over the course of six weeks by a crew of three American filmmakers, Circle...

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