Nkumi, everyday life

The Porters

Some kids in Brussels play a game based upon objects that were brought back from the Congo and which were used during th...

Empire of Dust

Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chi...

John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure

John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in commo...

Danse d'hommes

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

The Vocation

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missiona...

Africa Blood and Guts

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countri...

Kongoveteranerna

Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion (1960-64), Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation....

The Hunters

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraff...

Himalayan Herders

John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sherpa people in their...

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Euskal herri-musika

An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It d...

Cowboy and Maria in Town

Exploring individual responses to rapid social change, Cowboy and Maria in town follows the parallel lives of its two ce...

Burial among the Tetela

Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by director Luc de Heusch...

Lotoko

Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 195...

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold Wa...

Kisangani Diary

Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalist...

A Wife Among Wives

David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documenta...

Girl Fact

In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape has been used as a weapon of war for more than 15 years. Marth...

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assa...

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