Tradition Movies

The traditional healers in the Swiss and French mountains.

Young Seide lives in a secluded mountain village in the heart of Kyrgyzstan. She loves her freedom to ride her horse, the closest soul she has, and...

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

In rural Kosovo, identical houses are built for family members working abroad, in the hope that they will one day return to settle in their old...

The Kalaallit people of Greenland have been intimately connected to the eternal ice for millennia. These massive glaciers stand as records of ancient...

Directed by Sid Ali Mazif.

Pete Standing Alone is a Blood Indian who, as a young man, was more at home in the White man's culture than his own. Confronted with the realization...

IJswee is a documentary film about an ice club, a village and the warm winters. In the film we follow Oringers, the inhabitants of Odoorn, through...

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

Led by Daoudi, a disenchanted architect, a group of Constantines return to their village in deep Algeria where a young man delivers to them words of...

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

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

The horn sledges were used throughout the Alps in forestry and agriculture for material transports on steep terrain. In the Muota valley, in the...

Kae is a young man who learns the art of Thai shadow play from his father and grows up to become a respectable shadow player. His love for the art is...

A couple who want to marry, but face the disapproval by the girl's father.

A Kellergasse – the cellar lane – is one of the distinguishing cultural and physical features of the winegrowing region...

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...

Through the years, a mother and her child share simple yet essential moments. Objects and clothing become silent witnesses to their bond as it...