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Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....
In the 60s Allan Baldwin, then a young photographer, travelled through Aotearoa (New Zealand), obsessed with preserving the image of the moko, a Maori tattoo put on the chins of the Kuia women. Allan Baldwin...
Ben Hopkins’ documentary 37 USES FOR A DEAD SHEEP provides a glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Documentarist Hopkins teams up...
Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...
Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...
Among the Wana people, semi-nomads from the Indonesian forest of Sulawesi, Indo Pino is a shaman recognized by everybody. Her nephew, who is also a shaman’s son, converted to Christianity and is now...
A video of quintessential multicultural, multiethnic America Teja Arboleda’s performance ‘Ethnic Man!', based on his autobiography, addressing cultural, racial and ethnic identity. Arboleda’s father is...
A study of gypsy music, which includes portraits of the Stow-on-the-Wold Gypsy Horse Fair and Romany campsites. Linked with Romany folk songs and portraits of families and individuals such as Dave Rawlings,...
A personal document by Ann Richardson of her time in Delhi. Her two most regular daily companions were Manju and Seema, aged 11 and 12, who came to clean her flat. The girls were at first a little cautious...
In a poor suburb on the outskirts of the capital of Cape Verde, where one standpipe serves 3,000 people, and then only for three hours a day, Balila, who is 53 and blind, sells water. She has had a hard...
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