Award: Documentary Award

Time: February 12, 1998-October 25, 2002
Place: Sudan
Nationality: The Nuba Tribe

The Nuba is an aboriginal nationality, living in Nuba Mountain in central and southern Sudan.

P12: A young boy makes his way back to his village.

P11: Two young Nuba boys bath in a mountain string in the nuba mountain.

P10: A older woman of the nuba tribe helps bring in the harvest.

P9: Witch doctor of the touche tribe in a trance. The nuba have a strong belief in traditional healers.

P8: A man from the “touche” tribe in the nuba amts who has been placed in a trance by a local witch doctor.

P7: For these two young Nubian wrestlers wrestling is a rites of passage leading to manhood.

P6: A young Nuba girl.

P5: At the end of the rain season the Nuba dance to appease and thank the god’s for the rain.

P4: Women of the touche tribe dance in the Nuba Mountains.

P3: The young women of the Nuba.

P2: Elaborate scarification of the body of this girl represents different stages of her physical development.

P1: Women of the touche tribe in the Nuba Mountains return to their village.