Ganga Ma

Documentary directed by Jörg Hissen and Rolf Lambert

By the River

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.

Ganga & Me

'Ganga & Me' is a Docu-Feature Film by the award winning film director Sunil Babbar. The 49 minutes film depicts the spiritual and emotional bond of a Hindu with the mother Ganga. Shot at the beautiful locales of Haridwar, Rishikesh and Varanasi, the film takes you on a spiritual journey in India. The language of the film is English.

Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand humanity's changing relationship with the world around us.

Ganges

A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile Bengal delta, exploring the natural and spiritual worlds of this sacred river.

UMA: Luz dos Himalaias

Thousands of people from every corner of the world go to India every year for a spiritual experience that provides self-knowledge and healing of past trauma.

Uttarakhand, aux sources du Gange

Children of the Pyre

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in Banaras.

BBC Earth - Amazing Earth: Ganges

Living River: The Ganges

The River

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

Un + une

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

శక్తి

The central minister's daughter who secretly goes on a trip is targeted by some evil Egyptians who want her and a holy diamond in their custody, while a guide gets linked to the fight as he protects her from all possible dangers.

மகாநதி

Krishnaswamy, a widowed, kind-hearted man, lives a peaceful life with his children and mother in a village. Dreaming of a better future, he is deceived into a fraudulent business deal and unjustly imprisoned. As he endures the harsh realities of the corrupt system, his family is torn apart, and his children fall into tragic circumstances. After his release, Krishnaswamy embarks on a heart-wrenching journey to reunite with his family, facing the dark underbelly of society.

मसान

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

Il tesoro del Bengala

A fun fantasy classic for the entire family! In this exotic adventure, young hero Ainur played by Sabu is living in a remote Hindu village. There he must protect the town treasure, the world's largest ruby, from being stolen.

La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés

A thoughtful exploration of gypsy culture, an intimate portrait of flamenco guitar player Yerai Cortés and a healing family exorcism through music. Antón Álvarez (aka C. Tangana) makes his filmmaking debut with this documentary.

A Real Hero

A Real Hero is an experimental documentary about the life and humanitarian work of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Imprint in Clay

“Sardar Gurcharan Singh was the father of studio pottery in India. "Daddyji" as most called him lovingly was very close to my father. I often tagged along to visit his home studio where pottery wheels were lined up under the big neem trees in his old brick house. My father wanted me to make a film on Daddyji, who was then 95. He was afraid that Daddyji's wonderful story would be left untold. He not only introduced studio pottery in India but due to his longevity, mentored many potters. So despite not knowing anything about films, I made the documentary, Imprint in Clay with a classmate of mine, which was mostly funded by my father.”

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