Traditional Culture Movies

After discovering that his father is at death's door, Mr. Miyagi sets out to Japan, to see him with Daniel. Upon arriving, Miyagi must confront an...

On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from...

Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey...

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and...

Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a...

A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their...

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.

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

Does Europe also have its own animistic heritage, like Pachamama in South America and Shinto in Japan? If so, which one? In the Misty Lands, i.e....

"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young...

A girl celebrates her 16th birthday with a Umhlonyane.

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the...

An overview of the people, lifestyle, and traditions of Samoa, as well tourism and other economic changes on the Samoan islands.

In Javanese culture, Gowok is a term for a woman hired to teach household and sexuality to teenage or pre-marriage boys. The groom's family rents a...