Keyword 'Tradition'

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	Dao ma tse Zhuangzhuang Tian – China – 1985 Norbu is a nomad who lives with his wife and his child in the mountainous highland of tibet as a shepherd. He belongs to an ethnic minority and from time to time he sees himself compelled to act as a horse thief in order to provide his family with food. More information on this film
	Die Tunisreise - Le voyage à Tunis Bruno Moll – Tunisia – 2007 A very special journey: In 1914 Paul Klee visited the South of Tunis. More than 90 years later, the filmmaker Nacer Khemir, a painter himself and admirer of Klee, makes the same journey, following the marks Klee has left and guiding the spectator into the tunisian culture in all its richness. More information on this film
	Djomeh Hassan Yektapanah – Iran – 2000 More information on this film
	Halodhia choraye baodhan khai Jahnu Barua – India – 1987 More information on this film
	Heartstrings - Xin xiang Zhou Sun – China – 1990 More information on this film
	Jom Ababacar Samb Makharam – Senegal – 1981 More information on this film
	Journey to the Sun - Günese Yolculuk Yesim Ustaoglu – Turkey – 1999 A story of friendship, courage and a politically naive man’s transformation into someone painfully aware of the social realities in contemporary Turkey … Mehmet and Berzan, two young men from different regions of Turkey bond together as lower – class citizens in Istanbul. More information on this film
	Komal gandhar Ritwik Ghatak – India – 1961 More information on this film
	Le collier perdu - Tawk al hamama al mafkoud Nacer Khemir – Tunisia – 1991 The fairy tale "the dove's lost necklace" by Nacer Khemir tells the story of Hassan, a young man who is taught calligraphy by his master. One day he runs across a portion of an old text which convinces him that it holds the secrets to love. With the help of an impudent young boy and the boy's monkey (whom the boy thinks is an enchanted prince), Hassan sets out to find the rest of the manuscript. More information on this film
	Les baliseurs du désert - El Haimoune Nacer Khemir – Tunisia – 1984 More information on this film
	Life on a String - Bian zou bian chang Kaige Chen – China – 1991 A blind master wanders through a mythic landscape of a terrific beauty to play his songs and sing his ballads. His whole life he's had one hope, one dream of another world: According to a prophecy he shall be able to see, if he has broken 1000 of his banjo strings. More information on this film
	Lumumba Raoul Peck – Congo – 2000 More information on this film
	Meghe dhaka tara Ritwik Ghatak – India – 1960 The film tells the story of Nita, a beautiful young woman who lives with her family, refugees from East Pakistan, in the suburbs of Calcutta. Nita is a self-sacrificing person who is constantly exploited by everyone around her, even her own family, who take her goodness for granted. More information on this film
	Mossane Faye Safi – Senegal – 1996 This Senegalese melodrama tells the story of a young girl called Mossane who lives in a village between the ocean and the savannah. There, veneration for the traditions is very common. There's a legend saying that every other century a girl is born who is doomed because of her beauty. More information on this film
	Narradores de Javé Eliane Caffé – Brazil – 2003 More information on this film
	Nha Fala Flora Gomes – Guinea-Bissau – 2002 More information on this film
	Piravi Shaji N. Karun – India – 1988 An ageing father waits, in vain, at the bus stop for his son Raghu, a student at the University of Trivandrum, who is supposed to be coming home for the holidays. The elderly Chakyar’s eager happiness slowly turns to disappointment and then anxiety. More information on this film
	Po di sangui Flora Gomes – Guinea-Bissau – 1996 This film, in the style of an African folk tale, is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber. The tale begins as the wanderer Dou returns to the village. More information on this film
	Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn Ernest Abdyjaparov – Kyrgyzstan – 2007 Is it possible to justify the bride kidnapping if “he” and “she” will create a happy family after that? People marry by mutual agreement and love. And it happens that they marry of parents’ interests will. But Kyrgyz people have such a custom when the bride is kidnapped. More information on this film
	Season of the Horse - Jifeng Zhong De Ma Cai NING – Inner Mongolia – 2005 Under the encouragement of the Chinese government, the traditional way of life of the nomads of the Mongolian plains change. Once a culture with a great emphasis on raising horses on the grassy plains, they are encouraged to move into the cities to work as industrial workers. More information on this film
	Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais Moufida Tlatli – Tunisia – 1994 The news that Prince Sid'Ali has died suddenly confronts 25-year-old Ali with her past again. During the funeral she visits the palace where she spent her childhood and adolescence and where her mother was a servant. She never knew her father - he may even have been the prince. More information on this film
	Sia - le rêve du python Dani Kouyaté – Burkina Faso – 2001 More information on this film
	Sibaji Kwon-taek Im – South Korea – 1987 More information on this film
	Swaham Shaji N. Karun – India – 1994 More information on this film
	Ta Dona Adamo Drabo – Mali – 1991 Ta dona is the story about a young forest ranger and his life in the African country of Mali in the 1990s. He's a young Bambara man, an employee in Mali's Ministry of Rivers and Forests, searching for an ancient herbal remedy for childbirth, a plant with mythical healing powers. More information on this film
	The Legend of Love - Tcherike-ye Hooram - Afsaneh- Farhad Mehranfar – Kurdistan – 2001 More information on this film
	The Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng Hsiao-hsien Hou – Taiwan – 1990 More information on this film
	Twilight Samurai, The - Tasogare Seibei Yoji Yamada – Japan – 2003 Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low-ranking samurai and family man, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make both ends meet. More information on this film
	Wara mendel - Dance of the Wind Rajan Khosa – India – 1997 There is an old Indian tradition according to which the parents teach their children the songs of wisdom, in order to enable them to bear their fate and their lives with more calmness. Pallavi - acted by India's most successful TV-star Kitu Gidwani - is a young, successful singer who has learnt her art with the help of her mother. More information on this film
	Women's Paradise - Ayolar Saltanati Yusup Razykow – Uzbekistan – 2000 More information on this film
	Zan Boko Gaston Kaboré – Burkina Faso – 1988 More information on this film