Tradition Movies

In this layered short film, filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum (grandmother), a residential school survivor who...

The traditional healers in the Swiss and French mountains.

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditional fishers—catch cod live by hand, one...

At the end of an extraordinary situation in the village, when the people of the village cannot reach the government, they try to break a curse by...

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

Pablo Pajarito, the last potter to practice the barro canelo technique, is navigating the grief of losing his father, who was also his teacher. As...

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

Doting parents teach their young daughter the family Halloween tradition.

The story of a young Mi'kmaq girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."

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

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...

High school soccer players Cammie, Em, and Kara have a tradition of visiting a new psychic after every Saturday match. Cammie soon finds herself in...

What motivates a cock-fighter to fight a rooster he loves? In Costa Rica, cockfighting is considered a crime and has been banned for 99 years. A...

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

At the forests of Östergötland, where land meets sea, rests the old castle Herrborum. Here lives count Magnus Stenbock, 92, according to...

Among the narrow alleys of Via Panneria and Piazza Monte di Pietà, in the ancient heart of Palermo, the echo of a miracle still resonates....

A man must undergo a traditional marriage trial as he tries to propose to a lover he has never met.

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast...

An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in...

In the middle of June the village of Santo Antonio de Mixoes da Serra in the Valdreu region of Northern Portugal honours its Patron Saint with a very...