Traditional Culture Movies

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

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

Without Bounds to Beat is an experimental documentary that recounts a town’s revival of an ancient folk tradition, placing it in contrast to...

Crying in public is something most people avoid. For some men it’s a calling. With the audition for Much Wenlock’s new Town Crier...

A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.

In the Forest of Dean is a community of people continuing the ancient practice of Freemining: a traditional way of mining for coal an iron ore in...

Following Simon on his maiden voyage with Eddie, his horse, travelling on foot from Dorset to Devon in time for the Sidmouth Folk Festival. Meeting...

Life as it was 300 years ago: the Amish in the USA. The religious community has its origins in Europe and its very own rules, such as adult baptism...

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 girl celebrates her 16th birthday with a Umhlonyane.

A reverberating blur of bodies and fire conjures forth representation of the potent and intoxicating Southern English folk custom of the flaming tar...

Video dedicated to the celebration of the centenary of Edison Carneiro’s birth, one of the great exponents of folklore studies in Brazil, whose...

Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing...

This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the...

The kookor is a type of leather flask which has been used by Kyrgyz people for centuries. In this parable, an old kookor finds itself confronted with...

This documentary film depicts brave Virgin Islands fishermen with a love and commitment to the sea. Watch as they give their accounts of adventure...