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Films
5 Films
with a digital version available
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Region
“South Asia”
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Country
“India”
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Keywords
“Religion Belief Faith”
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Series
“0”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
5
x
Region
South Asia
5
x
Country
India
5
x
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Children / Young people
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Intergenerational relations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
5
x
Ritual
1
Social Change
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
2
Directors
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Basu, Helene
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Series
not set
5
x
Country of production
Germany
1
India
3
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
2005
2
2008
1
2009
1
2012
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Black Mountain
2008
84
‘
Directed by
Charlotte Whitby-Coles
Amin Hajee
.
A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten – the film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Inter-religious relations
Drugs & Prayers
2009
55
‘
Directed by
Helene Basu
.
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Holy Men and Fools
2005
61
‘
Directed by
Michael Yorke
.
The film narrates the story of Uma Giri, a Swedish woman who has become a Hindu nun, called Uma Giri. She is one of the few western women to be accepted into the most radical order of wandering
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Inter-religious relations
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
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
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