On the Spot: Tribes - 1 ª Season

Time travel has started with the Erbore tribe living in Ethiopia. It is also called ,,the land of mosquitoes" During days spent with the tribe Eszter and Andras they were eating, drinking, hunting, harvesting with the Erbore to understand how they can live with their ancient traditions. Eszter and Andras learn from members of the tribe what it means to be a woman and a man among the Erbore. Especially that a woman was giving birth to a child without a doctor in a hut, and the child has been given the name 'Eszter'.

The second episode presents the Suris from the Ethiopian Omo valley. They are considered to be one the fiercest tribes in the world and are famous for their annual stick fights which often claim fatalities. Nowadays they purchase Kalashnikovs from Sudan to protect themselves and their invaluable livestock from the other tribes. Defence is part of their lives: they used to disfigure women with lip plates to prevent them from being taken away as slaves. Today this practice is considered as beautifying. Meanwhile AIDS is rapidly claiming more and more victims and a Christian missionary couple is trying to halt the spreading of the virus. Eszter and Andris spent the night in a hut while visiting the tribe, that is how they had the opportunity to witness a wedding, or realize that the Suris prefer dancing to speaking because it brings them happiness. Andris even tried stick-fighting with a Suri warrior.

This film was shot in the West African Guinea-Bissau at one of the world's least researched tribes. The country, rotten to the core, is infamous for the Columbian cocaine shipments that are dropped here and later distributed in Europe. There are more than 80 islands along the coast of Bissau out of which only about 20 are inhabited, that's where the bijago live. No schools, no hospitals, no roads, no vegetables are grown on the islands, only rice is harvested and the odd radio means connection to the outside world. Still, this completely isolated community is changing. Christianity is spreading while many are still followers of Animism. In most of their time they celebrate at Animist rituals and their shamans are visited from as far as the capital by people seeking protection. Earlier the community lived in a matriarchal society which means that succession ran in the female line, the most important decisions were made by women. Today, however, the members of the tribe strive to resemble our civilization and expect help from their former colonizers. A West African island tribe's struggle to catch up.

Eszter Cseke and András S. Takács travelled to Papua this time where the Dani tribe received them holding spears, stark naked, wearing battle masks. After some negotiations the tribe decided to welcome them. This way the filmmakers could observe a world from hundreds of years ago. In the Wednesday episode we can see a tribal clash, a 350 year old tribal chief in the form of a treasured mummy, finally the tribe's most coveted secret comes to light.

The new episode of the Tribes series is set in Indonesia with the rainforest inhabiting Korowais. The last cannibals in the world - that's how renowned international magazines and well-known American TV programmes report on this tribe. Eszter and Andris took seven scheduled flights, sailed for two days and walked for a day to reach the Korowai tribe to spend some time with them in order to get to know them. They ate live worms, hunted for pythons and during these adventures the filmmakers and the members of the tribe learned a lot about each other.