Traditional Culture Movies

What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks...

A Batak family plans to perform Mangokal Holi — a ceremony to honor ancestors. However, chaos erupts when their great grandfather's skeleton is...

In the Faroe Islands, hundreds of pilot whales are slaughtered each year in a hunt known as the “Grind.” This gruesome tradition has...

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions...

Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a...

A girl celebrates her 16th birthday with a Umhlonyane.

Darên bitenê is a fascinating documentary exploring the “dengbej” musical heritage of the singers, poets and storytellers...

Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing...

Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak's documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their...

In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance,...

"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that...

Buddhist monk and photographer Matthieu Picard as he returns to the Asian country in the Himalayas where he spent a decade after seven years away,...