Moana
Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."
release : 1926.01.07popularis : 9.856
Forest of Bliss
Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily...
release : 1986.03.12popularis : 4.037
Horendi
The title of this film translates literally as 'to put on a hori,' a hori being the Songhay term for ceremony of festival. Here it is used to refer...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 3.35
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the...
release : 1993.03.20popularis : 3.258
Le Cavalier mongol
In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who then sell them to Russian slaughterhouses....
release : 2021.10.30popularis : 2.867
Germaine et ses copains
In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a...
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 2.542
Le Hampi - Le ciel est posé sur la terre
A ritual vase, the hampi, is placed in the center of the Musée de plein air de la République du Niger in Niamey, during a ritual...
release : 1962.05.07popularis : 2.216
A Wife Among Wives
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 2.038
アイヌネノアンアイヌ
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...
release : 2021.06.01popularis : 1.674
Amin
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles...
release : 2010.10.23popularis : 1.49
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 1.485
Pam Kuso Kar (Briser les poteries de Pam)
In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard,...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 1.328
Germaine chez elle
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of...
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 1.324
Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified....
release : 1972.04.13popularis : 1.301
Ghostland - Reise ins Land der Geister
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is undergoing a major...
release : 2017.11.02popularis : 1.214
Color-Blind
A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...
release : 2019.08.14popularis : 1.195