A por­trait of daily life and work in an African vil­lage. Seem­ing­ly untouched by colo­nial influ­ences, the inhab­i­tants are entire­ly self-suf­fi­cient. Eth­nol­o­gist Gulla Pfef­fer and cam­era­man Friedrich Dal­sheim found the … read more

Alha­jji Ibrahim Gonji is an Islam­ic schol­ar. For 46 years, he has served as judge at the Sul­tanate of Ngaoundéré in North­ern Cameroon. The film fol­lows Alha­jji during the last years of his life, focussing on the rela­tion­ships in a polyg­a­mous family, seen from the per­spec­tive of the wives and their hus­band. The film (shot in years 1997-2001 and edited only now) presents a way of life that is typ­i­cal of the soci­eties and cul­tures of Borno and Adamaoua provinces (Nige­ria and Cameroon) where people living far away from the cap­i­tal cen­ters, strug­gle to adapt to modern edu­ca­tion, strong mar­gin­al­iza­tion and increas­ing pover­ty. In recent years, the region has been under con­stant threat of the Boko Haram insurgency.

This is an excep­tion­al film about the con­flict in Syria. Far removed from typ­i­cal war report­ing, the anthro­pol­o­gist Stéphane Breton fol­lows Kur­dish women sol­diers, how­ev­er not in combat, but while … read more

Why do people sing when they work? In Phek, a vil­lage in the hills close to the border between India and Myan­mar, almost all res­i­dents work togeth­er in the fields. … read more

A por­trait of one of the rich­est Cameroon­ian indus­tri­al­ists Al Hajji Mohamadou Ous­man­ou Abbo. Filmed over a period of more than ten years. The red thread of the story is … read more

The indus­tri­al city of Sisak, which is one of the oldest set­tle­ments in the region south of the Croa­t­ian metrop­o­lis of Zagreb, is the director’s home­town and is locat­ed where … read more