The Years

The folkloric group "Nzale," founded in 1979 in Bangui, practices a traditional dance called "M'baka M'Bokou," which means "strength" and is a symbol of victory. It is a battle dance: each dancer wears the skin of the animal he wishes to incarnate. One dancer stands in the middle of a circle and fights the other dancers who come to confront him one after another.

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

Documentary about the concerts of the Russian Osipov ensemble of folk instruments in Czechoslovakia

Tance slovanských národů

Fašánek

Document about folk ceramic products from Moravian Slovácko and Wallachia.

In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death.

Martin Slivka's documentary film about Karol Plicka (1894-1987), the founder of Slovak cinematography.

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

Valašské tance

Hody v Hrubé Vrbce

Horňácká svatba

Lidé pod sněhem

Taneční zeměpis I. – Z Moskvy do Prahy

Taneční zeměpis II. – Z Balkánu do Prahy

Taneční zeměpis III. – Mládež pěti kontinentů

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.

Dance and prostitution play the same role for Cristhian’s body. Virtuosity, desire, technique, and sex intertwine, granting coherence to a way of life that offers many answers to few questions. A leitmotiv that reconciles opposites and contradictions. Answers that are sometimes painful, like all truths.

Terchovská muzika

A documentary filmed in the mountainous region of Agrafa, Eurytania, in Greece.