Scenes at his Excellency the Viceroys's Garden Party at Belvedere(1926)

Guru, A Hijra Family(fr)

Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durga, Kuyili, Priyanka, Vasundhara and Yamuna, under the firm protection of their guru Lakshmi Ma, deliver snippets of their marginal but sovereign existence. From a millenia-old sacred tradition to getting by every second, "Guru" composes with them a poem of intertwined voices in which the world is a tough playground, where the third gender is primarily the resistance force of a life shared.

Calcutta Pageant(en)

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

Calcutta Topical No. 1(en)

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

A Road in India(en)

Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

Temples of India(en)

Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.

James Bond in India(en)

The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.

Herzschlag der Kontinente(fr)

Between the Lines: India's Third Gender(en)

Repping best view to date into the world of the Indian eunuch, “Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender” may not answer all the questions it poses, but helmer Thomas Wartmann provides an intimate glimpse at a community whose members are considered pariahs and conduits of supernatural force. Following shutterbug Anita Khemka in her quest to discover why these castrated men fascinate and repel, docu concentrates on three personalities and uses them as guides to their highly stratified world. Under its nautch skirts, film has strong enough legs to step out into international arthouses.

Maharajah of the Road(en)

A Dream Trip Across India Some kilometers from Bombay, the Indian megalopolis, lost on a hill of Bollywood, is the grandiose set of a vast temple with a magical touch, reminiscent at the same time of an Indian shrine and an ancient Inca temple. Inside, Ten Ford Mustangs are waiting. Ten Ford Mustang with an incredible pedigree: Bullitt GT390, Shelby GT500, Shelby GT500 KR 1968... the deep sound of a gong resounds, the doors of the templeopen launching the first edition of the Maharajah of the Road. At the wheel of the ten Ford Mustang, passionate people coming from all over the world: Indian, French, American, Italian, Lebanese... they are business men, automobile designers, manufacturers, artists… From Mumbai to Jodhpur, a 2.000 kilometres tour will lead our Mustangs through India. From the Rats Temple in Deshnoke city to the thousand-and-one palaces, the two princesses will show the Rajasthan to the adventurers of the road in an eventful trip...

A Punjab Village(en)

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

Mind of Clay(hi)

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

Meena(en)

Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story.

The Ramayana(en)

The Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay performs a "puppet ballet" of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

Delhi to the North West Frontier(en)

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Lahore(en)

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally(en)

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Ajmer(en)

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Gangtok and Sikkim Trip(en)

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

L'âme indienne Martiniquaise(fr)

Old Barak(en)

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.