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Set in the high snow ranges of the Western Himalayas, the film shows the life and culture of Tibetan and Ladakhi villages: social and religious customs, Buddhist religion and Tibetan script, agriculture; a...
Shiva, the Hindu god of creation, is also the lord of dancers. The timeless quality of Indian art is shown here through Shiva’s dance, which emphasises the unity of all creative activities of man, whether...
Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....
Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...
Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...
In the divine Afro-Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children in the suburbs of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who introduce and guide us to this...
Shows healing and religion amongst the Barolong, a Bantu tribe of South Africa. Christianity has combined with ancestor worship, and churchgoers secretly use witch doctors when in trouble. In black South...
The way of coping with death in north east Arnhem Land is through rites of clan, religion and land. The funeral is for a young child at an aboriginal clan homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. At...
An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...
Looks at the village of Rrogam, about 45 houses in a valley in northern Albania. The Rrogamis only settled there after World War 2, moving from the village of Thethi across the mountains. Looks at the...
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