The Vault

An ethnographic documentary documenting the ritual warfare cycle, social life, and belief systems of the Dani people of the Baliem Valley in western New Guinea.

Zoilo Cajigas y Sotomayor is a carver of wooden models of saints. Don Zoilo is one of Puerto Rico's best-known artisans and was 96 years old at the time of the

An autistic documentary filmmaker studies two neurotypicals, trying to understand their shared way of being through objects, language and small social gestures.

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

"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful festival, the Ch

IMAGINERO is an ethnobiography of Hermogenes Cayo, a self-taught woodcarver and painter who lives on the high Andean plateau of Argentina. The film portrays Her

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

In September of 1899, the French cameraman Emile Lauste visited the Netherlands for the second time that year. [...] One of the subjects that Lauste briefly fil

A seven-day initiation ceremony is documented in which two women undergo ritual healing following a diagnosis of spirit possession, presented without narration,

Arne Sucksdorff’s ethnographic feature documents the life and rituals of the Muria people in the Bastar jungle of central India, focusing on their traditions, m

After centuries of colonization, the dry forests of the Gran Chaco are devastated and on the verge of disappearing. As the Wichí people try to navigate a presen

Nicolás Echevarría is a Mexican film director and screenwriter born on August 8, 1947, in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. Recognized for his contributions to Mexican ci