Velikonoce na Slovácku

Latvian Song and Dance Festival 2023

A highlight of Baltic culture, the festival dedicated to Latvian song and dance celebrates its 150th anniversary in Riga.

Ghost Island

Ghost Island follows a team of paranormal investigators to a desolate island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Amid eerie ruins and whispered legends, they uncover not just ghostly encounters, but the human stories behind the island’s folklore—a haunting journey where history and the supernatural meet.

Staré Valašsko

A short film about traditional crafts and culture that can still be found in the Wallachian mountains today.

Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a display of religious passion.

Strážnice

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

Valašské tance

Hody v Hrubé Vrbce

Horňácká svatba

Lidé pod sněhem

O Tardo

La Madonna in cielo, la "matre" in terra

An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the documentary focuses on the link between the cult of the Madonna and ancient rites related to female fertility.

Ailano, la tradizione

The religious traditions of a town in the province of Caserta, Italy.

Previanti

Tance slovanských národů

Stvořeno z hlíny

Document about folk ceramic products from Moravian Slovácko and Wallachia.

Osipovův soubor v Praze

Documentary about the concerts of the Russian Osipov ensemble of folk instruments in Czechoslovakia

La notte dei Cucibocca

Fašánek

Teicēja Anna Ščemeļinska

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ensemble from 1980. Her mother sang religious hymns ,"godzinkas", while Anna sang traditional dainas. The singing was like the rest of her life: in harmony with nature. Marked by hard work and deep religiosity, her songs are a kind of Eastern European blues or gospel. Singers like Anna Scemelinska are storytellers. Their folk songs comprise legends, history and experience from life.

Taneční zeměpis I. – Z Moskvy do Prahy