Glow Worm in a Jungle

Short documentary on India

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

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.

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

The timber trade calls on animal help.

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten by their families. Their parents would like to see them grow up as normal boys, but they're falling deeper and deeper into the world of the "Aravanis." Loved as dance performers but hated as homosexuals, their stories emblazon the inner conflicts of India's gender culture today.

This documentary film follows a Catholic Indian priest who tries to bring about Catholicism in non-religious Sweden.

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the viral comedians of Bollywood, we discover how people from every corner of the globe are fighting the same struggle. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities, and their political opponents.