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Films
8 Films
Country of production
“India”
x
Festival Prize Category
“0”
x
films with a digital version
4
short films
1
Region
South Asia
7
not set
1
Country
India
7
not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Children / Young people
4
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
not set
1
Directors
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Jayasankar, KP
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
MacDougall, David
2
Monteiro, Anjali
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Roy, Rahul
1
Series
not set
8
Country of production
Australia
1
India
8
x
Year of production
2000
1
2005
1
2009
1
2011
1
2012
1
2013
1
2014
1
2018
1
Festival Prize Category
Film list
The Child’s Eye
2018
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Ritual Journeys
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Dawa Lepcha
Anna Balikci
.
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for
South Asia
Ritual
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim
2005
60
‘
Directed by
Dawa T Lepcha
Anna Balikci-Denjongpa
Asen Balikci
.
The film illustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting,
South Asia
Social Change
Religion / Belief / Faith
Agriculture / Farming
A Two Day Fair
2009
60
‘
Directed by
Anjali Monteiro
KP Jayasankar
.
Nothing in the world will last – it is but a two day fair” sings Mura Lala, drawing inspiration from the Sufi traditions of Sant Kabir and Abdul Lateef Bhitai. He is accompanied on the double
Under the Palace Wall
2013
53
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
From the 16th century the Indian village of Delwara in southern Rajasthan was ruled as a principality of the kingdom of Mewar. Its palace, which overlooks the village, is now a luxury hotel – a
South Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Children / Young people
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
When Four Friends Meet
2000
43
‘
Directed by
Rahul Roy
.
Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, best of friends and residents of Jehangiripuri, a working class colony on the outskirts of Delhi are young and trying to make their lives in an environment which is
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Children / Young people
Urban
Where the Clouds End
2014
52
‘
Directed by
Wanphrang Diengdoh
.
“My late great grandfather was a Bengali who came to Shillong in the early 1900s – long before the present political border divided the lands.” After the creation of borders between India and
South Asia
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Collective / Community identity