Ethnographical Movies

This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade...

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to d...

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Na...

Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.

An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.

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

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 change...

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

A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a period of eight years.

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

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

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

The film was made on the basis of the literary version of events in the life of the famous Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, biologist and travele...

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihoo...

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In the ba...

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

'Mod' is an attempt by the filmmaker at communicating with the young men who hang out at the ‘notorious’ water tank in her neighbourhood in Pratap Vih...

Saint Anthony, Abbot of the Desert, protector of animals, is a central figure in the Italian countryside, where fortune depends on the health of the a...