Ethnographical Movies

About the "concheros", dancers in México City that keep aztec traditions alive.

With a dual motion a cruise ship and a fishing boat pass one another on the Nile and butlers in turbans set up a wooden gangway. Thanks to a rope and...

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A 16-minute short shot with a totally subjective eye; conveys the mythic life sense and social elements of a people who live in the world's highest...

Two parallel stories about unhappy marriages that take place during inter-war period in the Banat village within Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia.

Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien...

The first Easter Island documentary, filmed in 1935 when the Belgian naval ship Mercator came to collect Drs. Henri Lavacherry and Alfred...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.

The film tells two parallel stories. One, set in the present, tells of a pagent about the conquest of America, while the other, set in the 15th...

The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or subtitles,...

John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sherpa people in their documentary , the Himalayan...

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with...

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

Short ethnographic documentray about Arba'een, a Shia Muslim religious observance

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.

This documentary looks at the stories of a few people in Aspen Colorado and how they contribute to the community.

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of...