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The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...
An unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cocoa farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in...
Examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the...
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...
In 30 years, award-wining photographers and National Geographic grantees Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have travelled over 270,000 miles through 40 countries in Africa to document more than 150 cultures....
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,...
Filmed in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital in Berlin, this video looks at the procedures involved in a fertility clinic through an experimental anthropological gaze. Concerned with the...
Filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar, UNCANNY STRANGERS provides insight into the relationships between the villagers and various human and non-human ‘strangers’ - ancestor and...
1.5 million TUAREGS are scattered across the Sahara desert in North Africa, one of the earth’s most hostile environments to mankind. Over thousands of years the resilient Tuaregs have adapted well to the...
The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...
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