Ethnographic Film Filmes
- 2021

Ainu Neno An Ainu
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This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit...
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- 2018

Harlem School 1970
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A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed in the Spring of 1970 and concluded during the...
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- 1956

Horizontes de piedra
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In Cerro Bayo, a mountainous region of Patagonia on the Chilean border, a Kolla Indian falls in love with a girl from another village. His mother...
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- 1926

Moana
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Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly...
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- 1981

A Wife Among Wives
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David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part...
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- 2024

Ainu Puri
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Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teaches his son Motoki about their heritage. But how...
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- 1963

Attiuk
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The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed...
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- 1972

Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
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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....
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- 1962

Hampi
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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...
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- 2019

Color-Blind
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A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless ghost of Gauguin in excavating the colonial...
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- 1970

The Nuer
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Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds...
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- 1988

The Bapst Brothers, Carriers
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The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (produced in 1990) – are peasants and...
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- 2023

Creature Catalogue
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- 1993

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
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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...
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- 1953

Come Back, Sebastiana
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The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her grandfather finds her and tries to convince her...
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- 2017

Ghostland: The View of the Ju'Hoansi
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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...
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- 1986

Forest of Bliss
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Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily...
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- 1970

Pylon
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A young woman achieves cone consciousness.
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- 2021

The Bounty Hunter of Mongolia
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In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who then sell them to Russian slaughterhouses....
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- 1929

Kehre wieder, Afrika!
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Report on an expedition through South and Southeast Africa.
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