Traditional Music Movies

  • 2005
    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

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    In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance,...

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
  • 2025
    La Grande Parade Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2025

    La Grande Parade Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2025

    La Grande Parade Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2025

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    La Grande Parade Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2025
  • 2009
    The Two Horses of Genghis Khan

    The Two Horses of Genghis Khan

    The Two Horses of Genghis Khan

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    An old, broken morin khurr (horse head fiddle) compels renowned Mongolian singer Urna Chahar Tugchi to take a road journey to Ulan Bator and the...

    The Two Horses of Genghis Khan
  • 2017
    Our Shining Days

    Our Shining Days

    Our Shining Days

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    A youth inspirational film, about how a group of high school students try to revive Chinese orchestra ensemble. They face many challenges along the...

    Our Shining Days
  • 2009
    Voice Over the Bridge

    Voice Over the Bridge

    Voice Over the Bridge

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    For the first time, traditional Burmese singers Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing are recording an album that introduces people around the world to...

    Voice Over the Bridge
  • 2022
    Shiver

    Shiver

    Shiver

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    Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music...

    Shiver
  • 1991
    Beyond the Maypole

    Beyond the Maypole

    Beyond the Maypole

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    Zimbabwean musician, Biggie Tempo, talks to a number of UK folk musicians about their work and their views on traditional music.

    Beyond the Maypole
  • 2023
    Beyond Tradition – The Power of Yodelling and Yoiking

    Beyond Tradition – The Power of Yodelling and Yoiking

    Beyond Tradition – The Power of Yodelling and Yoiking

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    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...

    Beyond Tradition – The Power of Yodelling and Yoiking
  • 1967
    The Blue Beads from Greece

    The Blue Beads from Greece

    The Blue Beads from Greece

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    A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.

    The Blue Beads from Greece
  • 2025
    En avant guinguette!

    En avant guinguette!

    En avant guinguette!

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    En avant guinguette!
  • 2007
    12 Girls Band - Live from Shanghai

    12 Girls Band - Live from Shanghai

    12 Girls Band - Live from Shanghai

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    12 Girls Band - Live from Shanghai
  • 1995
    Kodō: Live at the Acropolis

    Kodō: Live at the Acropolis

    Kodō: Live at the Acropolis

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    Live action documentary footage of a concert by the Kodo drummers of Japan at the Acropolis, Greece, in 1995, with commentary by members of the drum...

    Kodō: Live at the Acropolis
  • 2014
    I Still Being

    I Still Being

    I Still Being

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    A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself....

    I Still Being
  • 2011
    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea

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

    Regilaul - Songs of the Ancient Sea
  • 1926
    When Naples Sings

    When Naples Sings

    When Naples Sings

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    Most likely made for the large Neapolitan immigrant population in the States, Roberto Leone Roberti’s love poem to Naples more than captures...

    When Naples Sings
  • 2018
    Shipibo: Learning Through the Light

    Shipibo: Learning Through the Light

    Shipibo: Learning Through the Light

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    Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo describes how he prepares, teaches, and shares the plant medicine ayahuasca. Olivia and Julian Arévalo sing...

    Shipibo: Learning Through the Light
  • 2007
    Woven Songs of the Amazon

    Woven Songs of the Amazon

    Woven Songs of the Amazon

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    The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called...

    Woven Songs of the Amazon
  • 1970
    Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano

    Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano

    Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano

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    Los Toques del Tambor Afro Montevideano
  • 2016
    May It Fill Your Soul

    May It Fill Your Soul

    May It Fill Your Soul

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    May It Fill Your Soul is a film about Bulgarian traditional music, about the pain of emigration and the promise of immigration, and about a family...

    May It Fill Your Soul
  • 2015
    Lotfi: Four Seasons

    Lotfi: Four Seasons

    Lotfi: Four Seasons

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    This Documentary takes a look at the art life of Maestro "MohammadReza Lotfi", the great master of "Târ", "Setâr"; great composer of...

    Lotfi: Four Seasons