Movies: Ethnology

  • 2023
    Measures of Men

    Measures of Men (2023)

    Measures of Men

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    Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female tr...

    Measures of Men
  • 2023
    Khaïma

    Khaïma (2023)

    Khaïma

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    Khaïma
  • 1969
    Monegros

    Monegros (1969)

    Monegros

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    Accompanied by the songs of singer-songwriter José Antonio Labordeta, a poetic journey through the inhospitable shire of the Monegros, located in the region of Aragón, in Spain, in search of peace and isolation....

    Monegros
  • 2019
    Century of Smoke

    Century of Smoke (2019)

    Century of Smoke

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    Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires....

    Century of Smoke
  • 2021
    The Wall of Shadows

    The Wall of Shadows (2021)

    The Wall of Shadows

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    A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs the most holy of mountains to earn money for their son’s education. They accompany a western expedition on East Wall of the Khumbakarna Mountain, a wall that has never been climbed before. ‘The Wall of Shado...

    The Wall of Shadows
  • 1940
    Procession at Gangtok

    Procession at Gangtok (1940)

    Procession at Gangtok

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    Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour....

    Procession at Gangtok
  • 2022
    The Unpredictable Factor

    The Unpredictable Factor (2022)

    The Unpredictable Factor

    02022HD

    In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - humans. How can we nevertheless understand our role in the climate system and manage the crisis? Climate change is a complex global problem. Increasingl...

    The Unpredictable Factor
  • 1937
    Life in Hunza

    Life in Hunza (1937)

    Life in Hunza

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    Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan....

    Life in Hunza
  • 1983
    Wie andere Neger auch

    Wie andere Neger auch (1983)

    Wie andere Neger auch

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    A black ethnologist explores aspects of German life in West Germany in the early 1980s with a foreign eye - and meets with rejection because she dares to look at Europeans with the same tools as they have used for centuries in Africa....

    Wie andere Neger auch
  • 1947
    Os Carajá

    Os Carajá (1947)

    Os Carajá

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    Os Carajá
  • 1955
    Les Danses de Tami

    Les Danses de Tami (1955)

    Les Danses de Tami

    101955HD

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    Les Danses de Tami
  • 2011
    Afric Hotel

    Afric Hotel (2011)

    Afric Hotel

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    In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular situation who live in this hotel with the predestined name. They live from odd jobs. One is an elevator opera...

    Afric Hotel
  • 1937
    My Song Goes Forth

    My Song Goes Forth (1937)

    My Song Goes Forth

    01937HD

    Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa....

    My Song Goes Forth
  • 1946
    Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath

    Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath (1946)

    Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath

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    Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath....

    Dancers at Trivandrum Gopinath
  • 1945
    In Rural Maharashtra

    In Rural Maharashtra (1945)

    In Rural Maharashtra

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    Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers......

    In Rural Maharashtra
  • 1983
    Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent

    Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent (1983)

    Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent

    101983HD

    Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, learned since childhood, Ouardia raises the water, crouches down to splash his face with cool water. Soon her baby will be born. Hadjila, the traditional ...

    Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent