Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
On the basis of anonymous telephone calls made to a helpline for teenagers, On Hold makes us hear a dissonant speech. Recounted here by older people, these testimonies are the occasion to question the construction of masculinity and its generational heritage. Between humour and dread, the film unveils what remains unsaid in a sick society.
Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.
Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.
We follow two boy dancers who describe their relationship with dance and how they feel about being boys in a world that is seen as "feminine" from the outset, and that it is possible for men to have different values and different relationships with dance.
Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.
Jaime and Pablo explore and work on their identity by telling us about their experiences and participating in a masculinity theatrical laboratory where we will discover the conflict that led them to question their masculinity. This conflict forced them to question the games they taught us as boys, proposing different games where we learn to care for the people we love.
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Aging parents of disabled adults, they worry about their child's life after their disappearance. A moving insight into the daily life of a family home in the Vendée region, which offers them the prospect of a peaceful future.
"Soup, soap, salvation." True to this motto, the Salvation Army cares for the marginalized and needy. Officer Fredi Inniger also visits homeless and lonely old people in the city of Zurich. Director Thomas Thümena accompanies Inniger in his busy everyday life with his camera.
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.
This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.
A scenes from a tour of Manipur State and a women's bazaar in Imphal.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.
Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.
Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.