Ethnology Movies

Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes...

A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs the most holy of mountains to earn money for their son’s education. They accompany a western...

In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - humans. How can we nevertheless understand our role...

Accompanied by the songs of singer-songwriter José Antonio Labordeta, a poetic journey through the inhospitable shire of the Monegros, located...

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular...

A black ethnologist explores aspects of German life in West Germany in the early 1980s with a foreign eye - and meets with rejection because she...

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

A film on a charming, 'unofficial' subject - authentic ethnographic record or exotica for western eyes?

Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...