Jean Rouch Movies

The third year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of...

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...

Traditional houses and new architecture in Ayorou, an island on the River Niger in the archipelago of Tillaberi. The village and its activities; the...

The seventh year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

A group of factory workers in post-independence Mozambique perform a ritual of song describing their work in South African gold mines and decrying...

A short film about two mothers from Niger and how they care for their children.

Jean Rouch’s camera follows his friend, filmmaker/actor/critic Farrokh Ghaffari, as he walks and talks us through the famous Shah Mosque in...

Shows independence festivities in Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, which on 6th March had become the first African colony to gain independence.