Anthropology Movies

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

A short film on Gnawa trance shot in south Morocco.

"Louceiras" portraits the daily life of the last ceramists of the Brazilian indigenous ethnic group Kariri-Xocó, who earn a living from clay. They inh...

The history of Amos, a town in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec).

Several filmmakers discuss the introduction of Western modes of communication, especially film, to native cultures. While these tools can help a nativ...

Biography of the ideas and teachings of Marcel Mauss, considered the founder of Anthropology who lived and wrote in the first half of the 20th century...

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

Thanassakis, a 13-year-old boy, is staying with his grandparents in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia, while his parents stay with his younger brother...

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 father's...

"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural elementary school in Kanayama, central Hokkaido, Nort...