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The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe
A four-channel video installation that continues on from the echoes of French colonial subjects. Senegalese soldiers, or tirailleurs, were among the forces deployed to Indochina to combat the Vietnamese uprising against
An intimate portrait of a fourth-generation Mexican Filipino American as they navigate what it means to inherit an identity rooted in cultural memory.
Aotearoa - Maori for New Zealand Follow the journey of the "Walking in the Footsteps of the Ancestors" tour, as Indigenous elders from all over the world discover New Zealand for the first time. Join the walk on the Mao
Second World War. The fascists attack Svaneti. Old Betkili, whose son was killed in the war, lives far from the village. The old man comes across a Soviet soldier, Lasha, and shelters him in the mountains, but soon finds
We Are Named for Our Ancestors is an experimental exploration of internalized racism and misogynoir within the diaspora.
Different encounters as experienced by the indigenous population of Australia’s Northern Territory frame the narrative, enriched by the collective’s approach to filmic ‘world-making’.
Short documentary film telling the story of the peaceful coexistence between humans and chimpanzees in Guinea, West Africa – and the way that bauxite mining (for aluminum) now threatens to destroy the home of both.
This Afrofuturist short film demonstrates that rhythm and dance bridge all times and spaces. Winner of Best Experimental Film at Collect Voices Ethnographic Film Fest, this film screened at Afropunk, Black Harvest Film F
The history of Rus' since inviting of the Varangians, led by Rurik, to converting of Princess Olga to Christianity.
Ancestors is a film about spiritual forefathers and mothers in a purely fanciful sense. These are classical figures, anatomical figures, fairy tale figures and romantic figures all thrown in together - all my creative ro
My house is under occupation. An army of tiny porcelain figurines is everywhere. I never chose to have them, just -inevitably- inherited them. And they are many and heavy and quite useless. Almost like aliens to me. Thes
The 1920s. Taking advantage of the fact that Soviet power had not yet come to Yakutia, the merchants made the locals completely dependent on their will. Merchant Oparin stopped exchanging gunpowder and products for furs,
New Year's Eve 2000. Young representatives of the Cossack and Tatar families got married without the blessing of their parents, violating the traditions of their families. Two families enter into a tribal battle for the
A documentary about the importance of a tribe’s language and one women’s journey to revive the Smuwic language through teaching and song.
A remarkable story of a young man who traveled to the remote rain forests of Papua New Guinea where he discovered an indigenous community with a dark secret.
Documentary that explores the festival known as the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), highlighting Mexican traditions and ancient ways that still exist -- all of these interpreted through Mexican cuisine. Each year d
'Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s inhabitants as the bor
This short film explores the life and work of prolific artist Faith Ringgold. By eschewing linear narrative and drawing connections within her collection of works, the film weaves a larger narrative throughout the story.