Last Nomads Of Everest
4000m above sea level, lies a small spiritual village called Nurkum. This is a mind blowing story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession of the Mountain cow husbandry in the most extreme weat
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4000m above sea level, lies a small spiritual village called Nurkum. This is a mind blowing story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession of the Mountain cow husbandry in the most extreme weat
The documentary highlights the culture, lifestyles, and traditional songs and dance forms of the Kalbelia community (snake charmers/nomads) of Rajasthan.
Amid government restrictions on ritual burning due to environmental concerns, 60-year-old Wang and 7-year-old Ming strive to fulfill a prayer boat offering for their departed loved ones.
This film spanned 18 years, documenting the dramatic changes and difficult process of transitioning from nomadic to settled home lifestyle for the last Mongolian herders in a high mountain pasture called “Eternal” on the
At the foothills of the Himalaya, along the border separating India and Nepal, Raji nomads still hunt for wild honey. They scale the trees of the great Terai forest, risking their lives to harvest the honey of the apis
For this 53-minute film from the People's Republic of China (1996), director Gao Guodong spent a year following a family of nomadic herders on the Qiangtang prairie in the mountains of northern Tibet.
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Sarikecilis are the last representatives in Anatolia of the centuries-old tradition of nomadism. Making their way to sea level in winter, and to the highlands in summer, they spend seven months of the year in transit, li
The 1948 episode “Nomads Of The Jungle (Malaya),” part of the educational film series The Earth and Its Peoples, directed by Victor Jurgens and produced by Louis de Rochemont Associates, follows a nomadic tribe in the ju
Reaching from the white snows of the Arctic Circle to the yellow sands of the desert, this is the story of two nomadic people and how they cope with the twenty-first century.
Record of the life of the Peulh Bororo people who live a nomadic life between the Sahara and the Niger River.
Documentary on a nomad people from Siberia, the Komis.
In Ethiopia’s Afar Region, one of the hottest and most inhospitable areas on Earth, Australian nurse Valerie Browning and Austrian aid worker Erfried Malle work alongside Afar communities facing drought, poverty, and the
It is 1965, a time of rapid economic growth for Japan and also a time when the people called Sanka, a nomadic band of outcasts, were fading away. Having arrived at his father’s countryside estate from Tokyo to focus on p
A heterogeneous group of shepherds travels through the Çukurova valley in Turkey, following in the footsteps of their nomadic ancestors. Between archives and imaginary correspondence, the film becomes an echo of the memo
Bayan-Ulgii. At the foot of the Mongolian Altai Mountains lies a region where Kazakh nomads live. While some families still continue their traditional nomadic lifestyle, others have migrated to the cities due to desertif
Kazakhstan is the ninth largest territory in the world. Home to the Central Asian nomads and Sufism - a mystical movement of Islam - it also claims the world's origin of tulips and apples. In her film, The Nomad's Song,
In the desert of Namibia, life has always been a harsh struggle enriched by a feeling of oneness with the land. The people of Ova Himba were cattle herders, who followed the rains and knew where to find water and vegetat
This collection of indie shorts from West Coast filmmakers Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick makes for a fascinating cacophony of images and themes, all investigating the notion of personal truth. Displaying talent in a w
The young director, Gael Metroz, takes the road alone, camera in hand, in the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier. He discovers that the East is no longer the almost carefree land of the Fifties recounted in l'Usage du Monde: I