Movies: Vriza

Set in a confined world outside time, East of Noon is the fable of prodigy Abdo (19) who uses music to rebel against his elders: showman Shawky (70), an eccentric showman who rules with a mix of performance and fear, and storyteller Jalala (75), who ...

An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and escaped slavery with enacted contemporary rituals, the film explores how the community’s powerfu...

Two park wardens on expedition in West Greenland exchange traditional wisdom and new knowledge about the land. How fertile Greenland sediments are used to improve depleted soils abroad or how microbes adapt to deal with pollutants. They introduce us ...