Keyword 'Tradition'
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Dao ma tse
Zhuangzhuang Tian China 1985
Norbu is a nomad who lives with his wife and his child in the mountainous highland of tibet as a shepherd. He belongs to an ethnic minority and from time to time he sees himself compelled to act as a horse thief in order to provide his family with food. |
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Die Tunisreise - Le voyage à Tunis
Bruno Moll Tunisia 2007
A very special journey:
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Djomeh
Hassan Yektapanah Iran 2000
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Halodhia choraye baodhan khai
Jahnu Barua India 1987
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Heartstrings - Xin xiang |
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Jom
Ababacar Samb Makharam Senegal 1981
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Journey to the Sun - Günese Yolculuk
Yesim Ustaoglu Turkey 1999
A story of friendship, courage and a politically naive man’s transformation into someone painfully aware of the social realities in contemporary Turkey … Mehmet and Berzan, two young men from different regions of Turkey bond together as lower – class citizens in Istanbul. |
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Komal gandhar
Ritwik Ghatak India 1961
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Le collier perdu - Tawk al hamama al mafkoud
Nacer Khemir Tunisia 1991
The fairy tale "the dove's lost necklace" by Nacer Khemir tells the story of Hassan, a young man who is taught calligraphy by his master. One day he runs across a portion of an old text which convinces him that it holds the secrets to love. With the help of an impudent young boy and the boy's monkey (whom the boy thinks is an enchanted prince), Hassan sets out to find the rest of the manuscript. |
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Les baliseurs du désert - El Haimoune
Nacer Khemir Tunisia 1984
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Life on a String - Bian zou bian chang
Kaige Chen China 1991
A blind master wanders through a mythic landscape of a terrific beauty to play his songs and sing his ballads. His whole life he's had one hope, one dream of another world: According to a prophecy he shall be able to see, if he has broken 1000 of his banjo strings. |
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Lumumba
Raoul Peck Congo 2000
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Meghe dhaka tara
Ritwik Ghatak India 1960
The film tells the story of Nita, a beautiful young woman who lives with her family, refugees from East Pakistan, in the suburbs of Calcutta. Nita is a self-sacrificing person who is constantly exploited by everyone around her, even her own family, who take her goodness for granted. |
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Mossane
This Senegalese melodrama tells the story of a young girl called Mossane who lives in a village between the ocean and the savannah. There, veneration for the traditions is very common. There's a legend saying that every other century a girl is born who is doomed because of her beauty. |
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Narradores de Javé
Eliane Caffé Brazil 2003
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Nha Fala
Flora Gomes Guinea-Bissau 2002
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Piravi
Shaji N. Karun India 1988
An ageing father waits, in vain, at the bus stop for his son Raghu, a student at the University of Trivandrum, who is supposed to be coming home for the holidays. The elderly Chakyar’s eager happiness slowly turns to disappointment and then anxiety. |
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Po di sangui
Flora Gomes Guinea-Bissau 1996
This film, in the style of an African folk tale, is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.
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Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn
Ernest Abdyjaparov Kyrgyzstan 2007
Is it possible to justify the bride kidnapping if “he” and “she” will create a happy family after that? People marry by mutual agreement and love. And it happens that they marry of parents’ interests will. But Kyrgyz people have such a custom when the bride is kidnapped. |
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Season of the Horse - Jifeng Zhong De Ma
Cai NING Inner Mongolia 2005
Under the encouragement of the Chinese government, the traditional way of life of the nomads of the Mongolian plains change. Once a culture with a great emphasis on raising horses on the grassy plains, they are encouraged to move into the cities to work as industrial workers. |
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Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais
Moufida Tlatli Tunisia 1994
The news that Prince Sid'Ali has died suddenly confronts 25-year-old Ali with her past again. During the funeral she visits the palace where she spent her childhood and adolescence and where her mother was a servant. She never knew her father - he may even have been the prince. |
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Sia - le rêve du python
Dani Kouyaté Burkina Faso 2001
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Sibaji
Kwon-taek Im South Korea 1987
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Silent Souls - Ovsyanki
Aleksei Fedorchenko Russia 2010
When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. |
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Swaham
Shaji N. Karun India 1994
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Ta Dona
Adamo Drabo Mali 1991
Ta dona is the story about a young forest ranger and his life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s. He's a young Bambara man, an employee in Mali's Ministry of Rivers and Forests, searching for an ancient herbal remedy for childbirth, a plant with mythical healing powers. |
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The Legend of Love - Tcherike-ye Hooram - Afsaneh-
Farhad Mehranfar Kurdistan 2001
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The Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng
Hsiao-hsien Hou Taiwan 1990
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Twilight Samurai, The - Tasogare Seibei
Yoji Yamada Japan 2003
Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low-ranking samurai and family man, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make both ends meet. |
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Wara mendel - Dance of the Wind
Rajan Khosa India 1997
There is an old Indian tradition according to which the parents teach their children the songs of wisdom, in order to enable them to bear their fate and their lives with more calmness.
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Women's Paradise - Ayolar Saltanati
Yusup Razykow Uzbekistan 2000
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Zan Boko
Gaston Kaboré Burkina Faso 1988
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