Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
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.
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
This sex education movie explore themes of body development, sexual hygiene, masturbation, menstruation, puberty, sex and giving birth.
Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.
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.
Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.
Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder? This documentary shows how India was dogged by nationalism and religious conflict on its path to independence - and how these factors mark the country to this day.
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.
Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
"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.
Film showing the Viceregal party entering Delhi on lavishly decorated elephants, as part of the Coronation durbar of 1903.
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.
Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.
Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.
Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.
A film produced to celebrate the coronation of George V as King-Emperor at the Imperial Durbar of 1911.
An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.
