Tradition Movies

Once free to farm in the most remote part of the Himalayas, today the people labor on the ambitious road to Zanskar, which will soon connect both...

From 1949 to summer the next year, Robert Kloster and Brita Gjerdåker Skre documented the daily working lives of the people on Havråtunet...

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular...

In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal...

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

In a remote Azerbaijani village, things take a turn for the worse on the wedding night when the firing of a gun, a local tradition, doesn't go...

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small...

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

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...

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

When her bossy socialite mother-in-law moves in, a soap opera writer’s life becomes real-life drama and a crisis forces them to choose: pride...

For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities...

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English...

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an...

Black Cake follows an Indo-Caribbean woman in Queens who's stuck in a routined life after the death of her mother. She's presented with an...

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own...