Ethnographic Film Movies
- 2018
Harlem School 1970
Harlem School 197002018HD
A unique 'direct cinema' feature length documentary (no narration or interviews) originally filmed in the Spring of 1970 and concluded during the...
- 1962
Hampi
Hampi01962HD
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...
- 2015
Saynatakuna: Masks and Transfigurations in Paukartambo
Saynatakuna: Masks and Transfigurations in Paukartambo02015HD
An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the Virgen del Carmen in Paukartambo, Cuzco. The...
- 2010
Amin
Amin02010HD
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles...
- 2011
Savage Memory
Savage Memory02011HD
Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing questions today. This is a look at his legacy and the...
- 1954
Mangbetu
Mangbetu01954HD
An ethnographic documentary about the Mangbetu tribe of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The film features a discussion...
- 2008
A vodou memory
A vodou memory02008HD
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...
- 1976
La chaskañawi
La chaskañawi01976HD
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...
- 1970
PYLON
PYLON01970HD
A young woman achieves cone consciousness.
- 1996
Germaine et ses copains
Germaine et ses copains01996HD
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...
- 1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen01977HD
Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls...
- 1994
Germaine chez elle
Germaine chez elle01994HD
In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of...
- 1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)01968HD
Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain...
- 1974
An Afghan Village
An Afghan Village01974HD
A collage of daily life in Aq Kupruk builds from the single voice that calls the townspeople to prayer, the brisk exchange of the baazar, communal...
- 1974
Afghan Nomads (The Maldar)
Afghan Nomads (The Maldar)01974HD
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
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...
- 1932
Cooking Milk with Hot Stones
Cooking Milk with Hot Stones01932HD
An ethnographic film by Milovan Gavazzi, the founder of Croatian ethnology. The films displays a practice that was already a rarity at the time.
- 1963
Attiuk
Attiuk01963HD
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...
- 1972
Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá
Mi hijo Ceferino Namuncurá01972HD
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....
- 1956
Horizontes de piedra
Horizontes de piedra01956HD
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...