Wallachian Nomads (1905)

Un joven cowboy, seducido por una chica nueva en la ciudad, descubre que ha sido mordido por un vampiro. Lentamente se convierte en una criatura de la noche, una raza compuesta por hombres y mujeres que vagan sin rumbo, alimentándose con la sangre de sus víctimas. Frente a estos zombis vampiros, sólo queda una cosa: "rezar para que salga la luz del día"

En tiempos de la Gran Recesión, Fern, una mujer del poblado de Empire (Nevada, Estados Unidos), pierde su empleo en el 2011 tras el cierre de la fábrica de materiales de construcción donde trabajó junto con su esposo, quien recientemente falleció. Con sesenta años y sin otra alternativa, decide vender la mayoría de sus pertenencias y comprar una furgoneta para vivir y viajar por el país en busca de trabajo, como nómada de hoy en día.

Esta es la historia de la vida de la gran reina de la estepa, la legendaria Tomiris. Ella está destinada a convertirse en una hábil guerrera, sobrevivir a la pérdida de personas cercanas y unir a las tribus escita / saka bajo su autoridad.

Es el año 1976, en plena era del progresismo, el amor libre y la libertad. Es también el año en el que Vivian Abromowitz comienza a madurar, aunque su padre divorciado no se lo pone fácil. Uno de sus empeños es que tanto ella como sus dos hermanos acaben sus estudios en el instituto Beverly Hills.

Los habitantes de Los Ángeles asisten impotentes a una ola de asesinatos en los que las víctimas son brutalmente descuartizadas, como si sufrieran el ataque de un enorme animal salvaje. Se trata sin lugar a dudas de la primera gran historia como reportero de televisión de Clay Dwyer que, para su horror, no tarda en descubrir que el responsable de las muertes no es otro que Néstor, el huésped que acoge en casa su dulce madre Emily. Lo peor es que la ha transformado en la misma clase de monstruo que él, un devorador de carne.

Saiva, una joven que se ha hecho a sí misma desde niña, viaja de lugar en lugar junto a su hija adoptiva, Anja, evitando al resto de los humanos. Cazan animales salvajes para alimentarse y cosen sus propias ropas con las pieles. Por las noches, Saiva cepilla el cabello de Anja a la vez que ésta le frota los pies; juntas se abrazan en una misma cama. Cuando Saiva ve a un hombre, Loki, paralizado en la tundra, ignora todo lo que ella misma había advertido a Anja sobre qué hacer con los extraños (como, por ejemplo, cortarles el cuello). Por contra, le cuida para sanarle. Pero la posibilidad de la presencia masculina de Loki en su acogedora tienda pronto hace que las dos mujeres compitan por su atención y su atracción física, convirtiendo su estancia en un terrible acto de venganza.

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.

In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.

Una noche de verano. Un campamento en algún lugar de Suecia. Grandes emociones, pequeñas personas, el primer amor, trailers, karaoke y un pájaro… Esta es la historia de Olle, quien a pesar de sus inseguridades y miedos, finalmente encuentra el valor para expresar su amor. A su modo.

The Meaning of Vanlife is an adventurous, revealing look into the Vanlife community through the eyes of nomads who have chosen to live a life of freedom on the road. A movement that exemplifies a deeper societal trend towards minimalism and authentic community building.

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grasso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.

Four men from a nomadic Tibetan tribe undertake their annual, ritualistic pilgrimage to a sacred salt lake. Salt gathered in this traditional fashion will be sold to provide the economic livelihood of the tribe for the coming year. The journey, necessary for the group's survival, also incorporates a number of rituals necessary for their culture to survive in the modern world.

Like an antipodean version of Romeo and Juliet, it emerges that Warri and Yatungka became the last nomads because they had married outside their tribal laws and eloped to the most inaccessible of regions. In 1977 the land was stricken by a severe drought and their tribal elders mounted a search for them with the help of a party of white men led by Dr Bill Peasley and one of their own number, a childhood friend named Mudjon. The film takes Dr Peasley back into the desert to relive his momentous journey with Mudjon and culminates with poignant archival footage of the elderly couple found naked and starving.

Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.

Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.

Early Balkan footage.

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his life changed: through a series of visions, Dawa acquired the gift of telling the epic story of Tibet’s King Gesar. Now, at 35, Dawa receives a salary from the government as a guardian of national cultural heritage and is regarded as a holy man by his community. When an earthquake reduces his hometown to rubble, redevelopment of the region takes a giant leap forward. In the midst of such seismic shifts, Dawa seeks healing from King Gesar and other divine protectors of the land.

A documentary on the experiences of the Nubetya Yaptiks nomadic family in the Yamal Peninsula, Eastern Siberia, from 1992 to 2001.

We get to meet Aslanbek—a teenage shepherd in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. “Aslanbek” is a story exploring the dynamics of relationship between humans and animals, what we can learn from the mountains, and about dreams. In short, it's a story about our forgotten values.