Ethnography Movies

"Sweet Osmanthus Flowering Late" is a feature-length ethnographic film that envisions social rejuvenation and collective convalescence in the...

A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory...

This is a film that shows the response of some natives to a group of gorillas that had been foraging for food in their gardens. They view the...

This film depicts the everyday experience of 'doing tourism' in two rural, ethnic tourism destinations in contemporary China: Ping'an and Upper Jidao...

The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the...

This ethnographic short portrays a ritual using masks among the Dogon people of Mali.

“The shepherdess” is a short ethnographic film inspired by Joyce, an 80 year old woman who has spent her whole life farming in Eastern...

Somewhere in Ulyanovsk Oblast people sing and pray - each in their own tongue

How do you entertain yourself while entertaining others? A short documentary about a nighttime projectionist passing the time.