What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?
Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.
Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.
Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.
Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.
Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.
Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.
This sex education movie explore themes of body development, sexual hygiene, masturbation, menstruation, puberty, sex and giving birth.
Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.
Jaime and Pablo explore and work on their identity by telling us about their experiences and participating in a masculinity theatrical laboratory where we will discover the conflict that led them to question their masculinity. This conflict forced them to question the games they taught us as boys, proposing different games where we learn to care for the people we love.
Aging parents of disabled adults, they worry about their child's life after their disappearance. A moving insight into the daily life of a family home in the Vendée region, which offers them the prospect of a peaceful future.
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
"Soup, soap, salvation." True to this motto, the Salvation Army cares for the marginalized and needy. Officer Fredi Inniger also visits homeless and lonely old people in the city of Zurich. Director Thomas Thümena accompanies Inniger in his busy everyday life with his camera.
On the basis of anonymous telephone calls made to a helpline for teenagers, On Hold makes us hear a dissonant speech. Recounted here by older people, these testimonies are the occasion to question the construction of masculinity and its generational heritage. Between humour and dread, the film unveils what remains unsaid in a sick society.
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
The future Edward VIII visits Malakand, Kapurthala and opens the Royal Military College at Dehra Dun
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.