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Films
7 Films
with a digital version available
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“India”
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films with a digital version
7
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short films
1
films available on demand
1
Region
South Asia
7
Country
India
7
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Children / Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Inter-religious relations
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Labour
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
3
Ritual
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Urban
1
Directors
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hörmann, André
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Series
not set
7
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Country of production
Germany
1
India
7
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United Kingdom
1
Year of production
2005
1
2006
2
2008
1
2011
1
2012
1
2014
1
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
Calcutta Calling
2006
16
‘
Directed by
André Hörmann
.
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western
South Asia
Labour
Q2P
2006
55
‘
Directed by
Paromita Vohra
.
Q2P is a film about toilets and the city. It sifts through the dream of Mumbai as a future Shanghai and searches for public toilets, watching who has to queue to pee. As the film observes who has
South Asia
Gender Role and Identity
Urban
Socioeconomic conditions
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
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