Catalogue des films

This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who...

Fascinated by the ancient Greek legend of Orestes, Pasolini travels not to Greece but to Africa. Here he films background footage of tribal customs and rituals, vaguely intending to use these shots for a film about an "African Orestes." That...

Germaine Tillion reçoit Claude Santelli chez elle. Elle évoque tout d'abord son expérience d'ethnologue auprès des nomades de l'Aurès (Algérie), qu'elle émaille de nombreuses anecdotes, notamment sur l'hospitalité nomade, la vie dans le...

Shot from a plane flying over Africa, from Ethopia's mountains to the Atlantic coast, this film unfolds the boundless planisphere, crisscrossed by the Nil, Chari, Niger and Senegal Rivers.

In the Central African Republic, young Gbaya initiates, called Be-ndele, perform the dances they have learned during their initiation.

During the screening of a film about them, the lion bow hunters decide to wash the shame off, called “The American” that escaped in 1965. They find him back (he has a specific injury on its leg, caused by a trap). But it is smatter that the...

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

Entretien avec son Excellence Amadou Hampâté Ba, un des interprètes les plus authentiques du génie de la tradition orale africaine. Il est donc un interlocuteur particulièrement capable d'effectuer une synthèse vivante de la réalité...

In 1958, with assistance from the Marshalls, a group of Ju/'hoansi returned home to Nyae Nyae after several years as unpaid, captive laborers on a farm. One woman, whose husband had escaped the farm and left her behind, had a child with another...

Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn.