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7.4Ask the Sexpert(en)
A sex columnist gains popularity even while a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools is adopted by approximately a third of India’s states.
0.0Mysore Dasara(en)
The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.
0.0Ukhrul Medical Tour(en)
A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.
0.0Devil Dancers of Sikkim(en)
Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.
0.0Duke of Connaught's Indian Tour(en)
The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.
0.0Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal(en)
Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.
10.0Gyani Maiya(en)
“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married in villages. It should be taught to children”. — Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) was a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and other barriers to active use. The community also lost their 83-year-old elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, the most and the only known fluent Kusunda speaker then. Filmed in Kulmor in the Dang District in 2018, this openly-licensed documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words and a biography of her people who were forced to leave their language and cultural identity. Kusunda is being revived by Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister, and Uday Raj Aaley, a local researcher who is the key interviewer for this film.
0.0Her Excellency Lady Lytton At The Victoria Memorial(en)
Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.
7.0Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche(en)
Brilliant Moon chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers. Spiritual guide to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan, his life and teachings were an inspiration to all who encountered him. Richard Gere and Lou Reed provide the narration for his dangerous journey out of China, the subsequent spread of his influence and the search for his reincarnation after his death.
0.0Calcutta Pageant(en)
Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.
0.0By the River(en)
Varanasi is the Indian city where Hindus go to die. Stretching along the Ganges, Varanasi holds great spiritual significance because Hindu scriptutres say that anyone who dies there will attain moksha—liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Berlin-based director Dan Braga Ulvestad captures life and death in India’s heartland in this moving documentary filled with exquisite cinematic moments. By the River starts its narrative journey with the city’s “death hotels,” dedicated apartments where people wait to die, sometimes for decades, so they can be cremated on the banks of the Ganges.
0.0Delhi Durbar(en)
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
7.5Father, Son and Holy War(hi)
Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan looks to history and psychology as he delves into the possible reasons behind the demolition of the Babri Mosque.
0.0Aravani Girl(en)
Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys, but they're falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon the inner conflicts of India's gender culture today.
6.0Palna's Daughters(fi)
A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, the 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi.
0.0Old Barak(en)
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
0.0Mysore(en)
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
0.0Gefährliche Jagd(de)
A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage.



