Ethnographic Film Filmes
- 2000
Tuo Dolphins
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On the night of 3 August 1996 a school of striped dolphins ran ashore near the village of Tuo on Ngasinue/Fenualoa Island in the Reef Islands...
- 1929
Kehre wieder, Afrika!
Kehre wieder, Afrika!01929HD
Report on an expedition through South and Southeast Africa.
- 1970
The River in Me
The River in Me01970HD
Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people who crisscross the Yellow River to perform their...
- 1995
Yirrkala: Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi
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Yirrkala is an Aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in Northeast Arnhem Land. It was established as a Methodist mission in 1935 and over the...
- 1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
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Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls...
- 1996
Germaine et ses copains
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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...
- 1974
Afghan Nomads (The Maldar)
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At dawn a nomad caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp, and in commerce with the townspeople, the Maldar...
- 1970
Pylon
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A young woman achieves cone consciousness.
- 2020
Days after
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In Isère, in the mountainous region of Trièves, is the Tournesol farm, an experiential farm totally autonomous in energy, a veritable...
- 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...
- 1970
Encounters in Yakutia
Encounters in Yakutia01970HD
Taking the form of a travel diary of a television journalist, this documentary tells about the life and work of the people of Yakutia: pilots,...
- 1913
Journey Through Setomaa
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Estonia's first ethnographic film. Made by Johannes Pääsuke in 1913 on his expedition to Setomaa, the South-Eastern region in Estonia.
- 1988
Hombres de barro
Hombres de barro01988HD
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,...
- 1982
Asante Market Women
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As retailers, wholesalers, and negotiators, Asante women of Ghana dominate the huge Kumasi Central Market amid the laughter, argument, colour and...
- 1972
Horendi
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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...
- 1976
La chaskañawi
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After his father dies, law student Adolfo (Jorge Marchand), returns to his native village in the South of Bolivia, where he falls in love with...
- 2008
A vodou memory
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Marianne Lehmann, born in Switzerland in 1936, married a Haitian and moved to Port-au-Prince in 1957. Fascinated by voodoo cult objects, she began...
- 1970
Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano
Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano01970HD
- 1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)01974HD
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,...
- 1954
Mangbetu
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An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The film features a discussion...