Traditional Culture Movies

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love...

On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.

An old, broken morin khurr (horse head fiddle) compels renowned Mongolian singer Urna Chahar Tugchi to take a road journey to Ulan Bator and the...

A documentary portrait of life in the Cook Islands, focusing on Rarotonga and neighboring islands. The film records traditional fishing, weaving,...

Devoted wife and mother Barbara Weaver led a traditional life in her conservative Ohio Amish community. Her husband Eli, however, gave into the...

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the...

Set in 1960s Java, a young Javanese woman betrays her teacher, falls in love and must face dire consequences.

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into...

A prominent young professional residing in Jakarta is abruptly recalled to his ancestral North Sumatra homeland by his patriarch to campaign for...

Ten years after the biggest environmental crime in Brazilian history, Leidiane goes out to buy bread.

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and...

Since August 2024, in Martinique, a popular protest movement against the high cost of living has been reemerging under the leadership of the RPPRAC...

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

El Gusto is the story of an orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians torn apart by war 50 years ago, and recently reunited for an exceptional...

A short documentary about everyday objects, the people who used them, and the beauty of that use. From the video description: "An encounter with the...

In the Faroe Islands, hundreds of pilot whales are slaughtered each year in a hunt known as the “Grind.” This gruesome tradition has...

A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their...

After years of absence, Ciro returns home to his mother's bedside. In the Colombian desert of Tatacoa, he meets those he fled and confronts the last...

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute...