Tradition Movies

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...

A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the...

This encounter takes place when an indigenous Nahua family from the Sierra Norte of Puebla, in Mexico, welcomes into their home a Sahrawi arab to...

The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called...

A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the...

In Papua New Guinea, pig tusks and shell money are currencies which can buy most things. Henry Tokubak’s dream is to create the first bank...

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

Demi has stayed in bed for weeks due to the Chinese postpartum tradition. Although she tries to be as cooperative as possible, the weeks-long...

A young widow struggles to reconcile her catholic beliefs with the demands of tradition after her late husband’s brother propositions her.

Nestled behind high mountains and dark forests lies Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. For centuries, this cult item has been handcrafted...

Traditions during Easter holidays in the remote village of Grešnica. The film was a research project of the newly opened Ethnological Museum...

Facundo Arteaga is a malambo dancer, who has already passed the barrier of thirties. His life is divided between work in the countryside and the care...

Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man's eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director...

A Batak family plans to perform Mangokal Holi — a ceremony to honor ancestors. However, chaos erupts when their great grandfather's skeleton is...

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for...

Doting parents teach their young daughter the family Halloween tradition.

An analysis of the controversy over the participation of women in the Irun and Hondarribia festivity known as Alarde. It is divided into three parts:...