Anthropology Movies

"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the...

A film about Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Filmed with a Malian crew, cut to the beat of Malian music,...

An insight and explanation of the Ovambo people of Angola and their smelting tradition. It highlights and examines an ongoing process that contains...

About the "concheros", dancers in México City that keep aztec traditions alive.

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the...

An anthropological documentary that gives voice to the Orokavia women in Papua New Guinea and shows their daily lives.

"Tubabs" is a nickname for foreigners, especially white ones, in the West African country of Gambia. In this documentary filmed by Mary Flannery, a...

The director’s grandparents Wilhelmine, an Austrian Catholic, and Bernard, a Jewish Czechoslovakian communist, have always been part of her...

Ano Ravenia, a mountain village in Greece, young men leave to find work, learn a trade or serve in the Army while a young woman may leave her...

A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of André Breton, the mastermind of surrealism,...

Globe-trotting Slovakian filmmaker Pavol Barabas explores Earth's biggest tropical island, New Guinea, in this breathtaking tour of a culture wholly...

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a...

This film shows Madi people dancing.

March 2008. The renowned journal ‘Science’ publishes an article confirming that the human bones discovered in 2004 on the island of...

“The shepherdess” is a short ethnographic film inspired by Joyce, an 80 year old woman who has spent her whole life farming in Eastern...

Short documentary about the traditions, lives and culture of the Qadiri tariqa of Iran's Kurdistan

An Introduction to the Primates, covers 41 species of primates ranging from the 300-gram sized pygmy slow loris to the 200-kilogram sized gorilla. At...