Based on the work of Monsignor Leónidas Proaño, Bishop of Riobamba, the daily life of an indigenous community is presented. His family intimacy and his spirituality, manifested through a rich religious syncretism, are perhaps the most important aspects shown in this film.
TOKYO Ainu features the Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, living in Greater Tokyo (Tokyo and its surrounding areas), who are and actively in promoting their traditional culture in a metropolitan environment away from their traditional homeland, Hokkaido.
A group of people bows down as a ritual for religious ceremonies. This community shares a belief named Sapta Drama, one of the native religions in Indonesia that uses bowing down as a worshiping medium.
Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between Peru and Brazil.
Manifesto of the Pataxó tribe, with the testimony of the chief José Guajajara, in front of the Monument to Estácio de Sá, where the Tamoios massacre took place in 1567, on the coincident day that celebrates the foundation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, 20 January.
In a remote Peruvian city, lives Honorata Vilca, an illiterate woman of Quechua descent who sells candies more than 20 years ago, with the rain will cry to the sky itself.
This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in northern Japan, portraying people from tightly knit communities.
Popular movie trailers from 1988
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1988:
Hunter S. Thompson speaks out on: the Iran/Contra affair, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Politicians and Lawyers, John McFarlaine, Oliver North, and Richard Nixon.
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.