Daniel LaRusso, d’adolescent brimé est devenu l’un des karatékas les plus doués de Californie, et ce, grâce aux conseils pleins de sagesse de son maître japonais Miyagi. Mais un beau jour ce dernier doit s’en retourner dans son pays natal. Daniel décide alors de l’y accompagner…

Au coeur de l’hiver, un couple de Français part à la découverte des survivances animistes en Lituanie et en Estonie. À vélo dans la neige, une échappée poétique aux images d’une grande beauté. Une expédition de 5 000 kilomètres à vélo le long des côtes de la mer Baltique. Objectif du voyage : rejoindre les pays baltes pour en explorer la nature et les traditions héritées du paganisme de l’époque préchrétienne.

De Dublin à Belfast, de Galway à Killarney, de la Chaussée des Géants aux falaises de Moher, découverte de l'Irlande et de son peuple attaché à ses racines.

Afrique du sud, montagnes du Cap Oriental. Comme tous les ans, Xolani, ouvrier solitaire, participe avec d’autres hommes de sa communauté aux cérémonies rituelles d’initiation d’une dizaine d’adolescents. L'un d'eux, venu de Johannesburg, découvre un secret précieusement gardé… Toute l’existence de Xolani menace alors de basculer.

Née dans les années 1950 sur le pourtour méditerranéen, la paillote est un cabanon de plage où, à l'origine, on dégustait un poisson fraichement pêché. Avec les congés payés, le phénomène explose : les paillotes grossissent jusqu'à devenir, dans les années 90, des boîtes de nuit à ciel ouvert. Mais, aujourd'hui, les paillotes sont dans le collimateur des administrations. Trop bruyants, trop envahissants, ne proposant pas toujours une cuisine digne de ce nom, ces restaurants éphémères sont menacés par la nouvelle loi littorale de 2006. Les paillotes tentent aujourd'hui de se réinventer : plus discrètes, plus écolos et parfois même gastronomiques.

In a world where farming is mechanized and farm animals are fed with products coming from across the globe, a young shepherd is trying to keep his practice sustainable by using ancestral ways to raise his flock.

A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their reunion highlights the profound power of photos and the human connection that transcends cultural barriers.

A youngster begins to understand the wisdom hidden within legendary whaler-man Tall 12's sea shanty songs in the whaling town of Barrouallie, St. Vincent, a place where men still wrestle with the creatures of the deep for survival. Against a backdrop of cruise-ship tourism and economic colonialism, this lyrical documentary discovers a surprising renewal of interest and hunger to preserve local traditions and cultural knowledge through new interpretations.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.

What is tradition? This is the question posed by yodeller and food researcher Meinrad Koch from Canton Appenzell. In search of an answer, he embarks on a journey.

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions as the shaman dance (tiao tchin, meaning "spirit-jumping" or "god's dance"). However, on Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, a farmer named Guan Yunde decided to start designing and building traditional Manchu shaman drums. At age 70, he is one of a minority of ethnic Manchu people in China's Jilin province, and one of the few people keeping the Manchu shamanic tradition alive.

In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca.

Le moine bouddhiste Matthieu Ricard effectue un retour aux sources au Bouthan, le pays où il fut initié par les plus grands maîtres. Une quête spirituelle et une multitude de rencontres étonnantes dans ce petit royaume himalayen à la beauté sidérante, plus tout à fait à l’abri des dangers de la modernité.

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction of a community.

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the individual fates and life choices paints a picture, the validity of which extends far beyond this village." Joachim Manzin, Black Box This documentary records the thoughtful and emotional confrontation with time, change, loss and hope related by the members of a small community in the idyllic Ligurian countryside who are dealing with a rapidly changing agricultural industry, transformed by globalisation and technological advances and an increasing number of foreigners buying the empty houses in their village. Forgoing the use of music and voice over, the film lets Aracà's inhabitants tell their own stories and allows the audience to dive into the rich soundscape of the ligurian alpine countryside.

"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta. Although both come from leading families in the same large island town, Florence looks at the iria women's initiation ceremony as an honor, while Azikiwe, who has lived in the city for ten years, sees it as an indignity.