The Vault

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, incl

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a

Seeking out incredible people who perform real feats that look like magic, David Blaine takes viewers on a jaw-dropping journey through some of the world's most

The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the wo

After running away from a ritual, a child discovers true liberty in the desert. Aphélie is a 2026 French animated short film directed by Estelle Nguyen, Laura B

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local

Words, rituals, objects, references... Karambolage offers an amused comparative anthropology of the locals on both sides of the Rhine. Karambolage is a document

Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-Eas

Modern technology confronts ancient ritual in this profound and moving documentary. Teenager Chris Apassingok and his Yupik family live in Gambell, Alaska, a ti

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets. The Catch is a

Another Ernst Hofbauer schoolgirl exploiter in the same vein as his Schoolgirl Report films, but for this one he raised the sleaze level to new heights with non

This movie is a story about a forest tribe with one dominant male, one old male and the rest are all females. The rules of the tribe are the dominant male can o

Focusing on the West Lake Spring Flower Fair in Yuexiu District, this documentary adopts multi-site ethnographic participant observation. It traces the journey

A Greek documentary by Takis Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in western Greece and Macedonia. It was filmed in the village of Velvendo. Macedonian Weddin

After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cult

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begin

In a community of farmers living on the Malaysia-Thailand border, Hong Im recently lost her husband under mysterious circumstances. Hong Im uses black magic to

The story concerns a male youth named Ah Chung (or Diong-ah in the Taiwanese dialect) who graduates from high school and descends into a maelstrom of personal,

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in honey, drink win

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer night cele

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses. Afternoons of Solitude is a

Immersive and poetic film in which a dancer from Honduras leaves the city to return to the Afro-Caribbean Garifuna community of his youth, searching for his pas