Watch a curing ceremony on Soap2day. 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.
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For most of the last decade Laurent Jeanneau has been on an urgent mission to record as much as he can of the surviving music of ethnic minorities in...
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British musician and writer David Toop leads viewers through a tour of his voluminous record collection, reflecting on perception, the limits of...
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Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the...
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A documentary about the traditional music of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands.
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In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that...
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The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by...
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The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania...
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Documentary film Heavy Heart arose as a part of ethnomusicological research Silalo panori / Cold water (2014 – 2017) of ancient Roma songs....
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This classic documentary features the story and sounds of the talking master drums of the Ashanti. Filmed in Ghana and narrated by Mantle Hood
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The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the...
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Meet three men, who grew up in Vidsel, a small village in the north of Sweden. The men feel its hard to find a life partner, they have all found...