Berlin, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Alexander Hoffmann ist ein ehrgeiziger Ethnologie-Doktorand an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. In...

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

Der Klimawandel ist ein komplexes globales Problem. Zunehmend extreme Wetterereignisse, steigender Meeresspiegel und erschwerte Lebensbedingungen -...

Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only...

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...

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...

Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.

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

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

Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, learned since childhood, Ouardia raises the water,...

Featuring Paul Robeson, this is the first documentary film to take a serious look at social conditions and race relations in South Africa.