Here's a Health to the Barley Mow

AQAQUÑI

Velikonoce na Slovácku

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

O Tardo

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for future generations. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song and local stories that vary from region to region in his film The Eternal Song. The short documentary presents merry-making in Slovak and Czech regions that are changing with the coming modernization and transformation of musical records.

Q'eros. Nuestra vida, nuestra herencia

An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.

La notte dei Cucibocca

The millennia-old myth and tradition of St. Lucy's fire told through the eyes of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.

Folk architecture, costumes, work, customs and traditions, dances, and other expressions of traditional life in Slovak villages.

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.

Lidé pod sněhem

Document about folk ceramic products from Moravian Slovácko and Wallachia.

Fašánek

Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or mangelwurzels, a type of animal fodder turnip to make lanterns following a tradition in this part of West Somerset that coincides with Halloween. Punky or Punkie Night is thought to date from the turn of the 20th century or perhaps medieval times chanting rhymes and following a Punkie King and Queen.

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

Valašské tance

Hody v Hrubé Vrbce

Horňácká svatba

Documentary that exposes the secret world of these unknown tax havens. There is a global network of tax-free storage facilities valuable goods, catering to the super rich - and it's virtually unknown, until now. Freeports feature highest security levels, confidential record keeping and an offshore legal status and are a huge potential for tax savings. The film investigates their rise, who is using them, and why.