Tradition Movies

Jesa is a Korean tradition honoring one's ancestors. The filmmaker interviewed her parents about this ritual. However, it goes totally unexpected.

Ãjãí is a fun game in which only the players' heads can touch the ball. This practice, shared by few indigenous peoples in the...

Singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela's journey through Irpinia, telling stories related to music and tradition

A horror short that takes on the Southern tradition of covering mirrors that face your bed. If not covered, it is believed that spirits will enter...

Tradition and AIDS in Africa. What to do when the respect of tradition is at odds with the community's health?

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

Macedonian national folk dances performed by "Tanec" - a cultural and artistic society from Skopje.

Doina, a shepherd’s wife in ancient Romania, turns her daily routine into ritual. When nature foretells his death, her journey through grief...

In the hills of Costa Rica, Doña Carmen struggles to pass on her tribe's traditional ways of life. She must soon marry off her only...

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

Step aboard a wooden vessel built in 1970 that became a cherished family tradition for over 50 years. Set against the stunning Rhode Island coast,...

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

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

Doting parents teach their young daughter the family Halloween tradition.

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

Al Khadra is a renowned Sahrawi war poetess living in the al-Auin camp in the Algerian desert. A vivid testament to 30 years of the Sahara conflict,...