Shipibo: Learning Through the Light

A short documentary about everyday objects, the people who used them, and the beauty of that use. From the video description: "An encounter with the...

A devastating mercury spill by the world's richest gold mining corporation transforms a quiet peasant village in Peru's Andean mountains into a...

Michael Wiese documents his 10-day ayahuasca retreat at a lodge in the Peruvian Amazon.

Anthropologist and filmmaker João Meirinhos travels in Peruvian Amazonia to speak with healers who work with the plant medicine ayahuasca. The...

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides...

A portrait of Peruvian curandero Agustin Rivas-Vazques, revealed primarily through stationary-camera interviews.

On the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the ancient Finno-Ugric peoples originated a singing tradition of mysterious power called the Regilaul. These...

In the central Peruvian Amazon, a young indigenous man from the Nomatsigenga Community of Boca Kiatari, shares his urgent message with the world. In...

The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were abandoned by the institutions, and...

They have the power of the Apus! They live at more than 16,000 fasml since centuries! But their culture is in danger by the mining.

During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions...