Tradition Movies

The Big Picture follows two estranged brothers who, after the recent passing of their father, are forced to reconnect as they continue their family tr...

According to legend, Pelayo became a martyr and saint by sacrificing himself to save his king, Bermudo de León. Now, people gather to explain their hi...

The film is taken from a comedy theatrical play and it shows the customs of the traditional society in Seychelles.

In Papua New Guinea, pig tusks and shell money are currencies which can buy most things. Henry Tokubak’s dream is to create the first bank where tradi...

The lives of three Tunisian women are explored in this drama from filmmaker Nadia Fares.

Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, learned since childhood, Ouardia raises the water, cro...

In the mid 19th century, Yankee whalers taught the sailors on the tiny island of Bequia in the West Indies how to catch whales. The once proud America...

Viking chieftains, flaming torches and outlandish costumes liven up a dark January day in Lerwick, Shetland, as the townsfolk celebrate 'Up Helly Aa'.

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 the...

This documentary looks at the stories that take place around a unique 1.5 kilometre long bamboo bridge that for generations has been built every year...

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

Set in the Kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific Islands),this film looks at the influence and encroachment of western culture as shown in the relationship...

The story of a young Micmac girl whose name means "the light from the dawn."

Traditions during Easter holidays in the remote village of Grešnica. The film was a research project of the newly opened Ethnological Museum to preser...

Being a complete pictorial account of the remarkable "Fête des Vignerons", at Vevey, Switzerland.