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- A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- 100 years after its outbreak, this series lets viewers experience WWI solely through the eyes of those who lived it.
- About the epic film "Blade Runner," giving insights into its history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers, and nearly all of the cast. There are also interviews with production staff, giving details into the creative process and turmoil during pre-production.
- This documentary portrays a ritual among the people of an Upper Volta community in Africa, where fifteen days of mourning pass between the death of their king and the introduction of his successor.
- A dance of possession takes place in Zima Dauda Sido's concession in Niger. Turu and Bitti, the archaic drums, will be beaten during the ceremony.
- French 'cineholographers' Eizykman and Fihman make an attempt, in homage to Marey, to conquer the third dimension and develop a medium which accords primacy to the act of seeing rather than to the world seen.
- For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.
- This short documents the preparation of a musical event, a ritual associated in this African community with a marriage ceremony.
- The Makwayela dance is a form of protest, which the directors show a group of Mozambique factory workers performing.
- Traditional houses and new architecture in Ayorou, an island on the River Niger in the archipelago of Tillaberi. The village and its activities; the building of the house of a newly-wed young man.
- In the village of Simiri, Niger, fisherman Daouda is also a priest of the cult of Dongo, the god of Thunder for the Songhay people. He tells the god's legend by illustrating his account with drawings sketched in the sand at his feet.
- The second year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Tyogou.
- Beginning of the sextenary festival of the Sigui among the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali. This first ceremony takes place in the village of Yougo Dogorou. The men, shaved and dressed in ritual clothes of the Sigui, enter the public square dancing the snake dance. They honor the terraces of the famous dead of the last sixty years and go to drink the sacramental millet beer.
- Burial of the Hogon of Sanga, Dogon religious leader of Lower Ogol, Mali.
- Scene of possession during a ceremony to appeal for rain in Niger.
- The fourth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Amani.
- Near Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, people care for themselves as best as they can. They are also helped by Albert Atcho, the high priest of the Harris cult. A kind of magus, Monsieur Albert obtains amazing healings among the mentally ill.
- A Nigerian traditionalist who draws his inspiration from bird warbling to compose music to accompany his verse chronicles.
- The fifth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Idyeli.
- The daily life, customs and traditions of the people of Bougainville Island filmed by Patrick O'Reilly, a Catholic priest, anthropologist and pioneer of Pacific studies.