Tradition Movies

Essence of Healing is a documentary exploring the life journeys of 14 American Indian nurses - their experiences growing up, their experiences in...

Film describes the miserable existence of a charcoal-burner who is barely able to feed his family. His search for work in town ends in failure and he...

According to legend, Pelayo became a martyr and saint by sacrificing himself to save his king, Bermudo de León. Now, people gather to explain...

Overworked New York architect Daphne Bello arrives in the Rhodope Mountains to inherit the abandoned house of her grandmother, a woman she never...

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

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...

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional...

A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer...

This is the story about Setyo, Siti and Ludiro, who were the performer of Javanese Ramayana's Wayang Wong. Setyo and Siti are spouse who live in a...

Set in the Kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific Islands), this film looks at the influence and encroachment of western culture as shown in the...

A stunning and intimate portrait of the Arhuaco indigenous community in Colombia. In 1990, in a celebrated BBC documentary, the Arhuaco made contact...

What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks...

At the end of an extraordinary situation in the village, when the people of the village cannot reach the government, they try to break a curse by...

IJswee is a documentary film about an ice club, a village and the warm winters. In the film we follow Oringers, the inhabitants of Odoorn, through...

A family of artisans opens the doors of their workshop to share their daily lives, their beliefs, and their struggle to preserve Mochica culture in...

A Kellergasse – the cellar lane – is one of the distinguishing cultural and physical features of the winegrowing region...