Un marine paraplégique, envoyé sur la lune Pandora pour une mission unique, est tiraillé entre suivre ses ordres et protéger le monde qu'il considère dorénavant comme le sien.
Les habitants de l'ile de Kurage vivent selon les coutumes traditionnelles et croient toujours a la légende selon laquelle le dieu du frère et de la sœur créa leur ile au milieu de la mer de Chine. "Profond Désir des dieux" raconte l'histoire de Nikichi qui aima sa sœur Uma. Il fut puni par son père qui l'enchaîna à un rocher. Les années passent, le frère et la sœur se retrouvent. Mais l'amant d'Uma, le chef de l'ile, est retrouvé mort. Les habitants, convaincus de la culpabilité de Nekichi, les tuent. Cinq ans plus tard, des touristes innocents envahissent l'ile.
A tribal leader comes to the city to kidnap the girl whom he has sworn to marry. But a bumbling college boy, whom the girl has a soft corner for, stands in his way.
En 1975, un cinéaste accepte de collaborer sur un film avec un gangster qui souhaite devenir un acteur célèbre.
A boy is raised by a village chieftain after his mother loses him in the woods. As time passes and he grows up, he falls in love with a princess who is under the spell of a witch and decides to save her
Suivant la tradition bambara, un jeune homme s'apprete a recevoir le savoir destine a lui assurer la maitrise des forces qui l'entourent. Cependant le pere du jeune Nianankoro voit d'un mauvais oeil son fils devenir son egal aussi sa mere eloigne le jeune homme. Au cour de ce voyage initiatique, Nianankoro va apprendre a tester ses forces et ses pouvoirs qu'il devra inevitablement confronter a ceux de son pere. Prix du jury, Cannes 1987.
A man from lower social background qualifies and gets an administration job and to match his higher social occupation, he leaves his family, friends, and fiance. But gradually he understands his mistake and returns for his people. Finally he finds his wrong decision for the mining in his village has lead to the destruction and down fall of his people and everyone lives the village and him behind alone.
In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.
David and Judith MacDougall are exploring the marriage rituals and roles of Turkana women in this ethnographic documentary. The film's biggest part is taken up by talks between the Turkana people. As one of the first ethnographic documentaries "A Wife Among Wives" subtitles these talks so that the viewer can get a better and probably more personal understanding of the life of the Turkana.
The movie depicts the life of a tribal youth named Prakasan who lives with his mother and sister in Chamakundy, Kerala. He dreams of having a job in a city, which comes true. Prakasan's designated job is a health care worker which includes locating prostitutes to distribute condoms and spread awareness. He finds it hard to wrap his head around this in a fast-paced life.