Tradition Movies

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

Jesa is a Korean tradition honoring one's ancestors. The filmmaker interviewed her parents about this ritual. However, it goes totally unexpected.

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

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...

Highlighting the unique culture of the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, this groundbreaking documentary chronicles the lives of those who identify...

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

Macedonian national folk dances performed by "Tanec" - a cultural and artistic society from Skopje.

This is not just a “folkumentary”, but an invitation to reflect on the future of humanity on a planet where tradition and technology...

The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after...

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

A granddaughter brings joy on Christmas morning by mending her Filipina grandmother’s beloved Mickey plush and decorating her house with...

A horror short that takes on the Southern tradition of covering mirrors that face your bed. If not covered, it is believed that spirits will enter...

A short documentary that celebrates Dene cultural reclamation and revitalization, in which a father passes on traditional knowledge to his child...

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...

Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health?

Ãjãí is a fun game in which only the players' heads can touch the ball. This practice, shared by few indigenous peoples in the...

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

Essence of Healing is a documentary exploring the life journeys of 14 American Indian nurses - their experiences growing up, their experiences in...