Anthropology Movies

This film shows Madi people dancing.

A short film on Gnawa trance shot in south Morocco.

Men and women in the Horn of Africa and adjiacent regions of the Middle East tell stories of their relationships and contacts with demons and spirits...

The director’s grandparents Wilhelmine, an Austrian Catholic, and Bernard, a Jewish Czechoslovakian communist, have always been part of her...

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

Short documentary about the traditions, lives and culture of the Qadiri tariqa of Iran's Kurdistan

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

Ano Ravenia, a mountain village in Greece, young men leave to find work, learn a trade or serve in the Army while a young woman may leave her...

"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural elementary school in Kanayama, central Hokkaido,...

Avelino Chillarón was 12 or 13 years old when he realized that his surnames and those of his cousins ​​didn't match, so he decided...

Vaastu Marabu documents the theory and practice of the Vaastu tradition of Indian art, architecture, craft and design. One of the foremost shilpis...

The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect...

An Introduction to the Primates, covers 41 species of primates ranging from the 300-gram sized pygmy slow loris to the 200-kilogram sized gorilla. At...

Raised in one of the most violent outskirts of Fortaleza, the Cruz brothers had their lives shaped by music to the point that their parents turned...

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a...

This documentary explores Nigeria's cultural practice of marking, including its origins and meaning as a symbol of identity, beauty and spirituality.