Ethnography Movies

A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory...

This is a film that shows the response of some natives to a group of gorillas that had been foraging for food in their gardens. They view the...

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

This film shows Madi people dancing.

India has one of the largest populations of Indigenous people in the world, known locally as adivasis or tribals. As India's current Hindu...

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

This ethnographic short portrays a ritual using masks among the Dogon people of Mali.

How do you entertain yourself while entertaining others? A short documentary about a nighttime projectionist passing the time.

Somewhere in Ulyanovsk Oblast people sing and pray - each in their own tongue