Héritiers de la culture rock occidentale et de l’histoire des griots africains, les musiciens de JUJU (Justin Adams et Juldeh Camara) nous entrainent lors d’un concert aux « Escales de Saint-Nazaire » dans une transe jubilatoire et contagieuse où se mêlent…
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three gruelling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct "Mary," a modern-re imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene. Featuring candid interviews and on-set footage with Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Matthew Modine, and…
#UNFIT is a feature documentary that delves into the psychology of the 45th President of the United States and of the electorate that put him in power. The film explores the prevailing anxieties shaping our politics and the elements of human nature that are contributing to the current rise of authoritarianism…
Viewing Period: Within 72 hours after purchase. --------------------------------- "A Great Blessing" （2011）95mins / Director: Ms. Fumiko Irie 〜 What it means to overcome yourself 〜 **Screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on the International Day of People with Disability…
Viewing Period: Within 72 hours after purchase. --------------------------------- "The Miracle of the Colored Light" （2008）86mins / Directed by Fumiko Irie **Screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival** Second released film directed by Fumiko Irie. Noriko Terada, a color therapist,…
Einführung in die Weisheit des Ayurveda: humorvolle Entdeckungsreise in die Geheimnisse der Doshas (das Herzstück der Ayurveda-Lehre)
Dor Bahadur Bista, one of Nepal’s most controversial intellectuals in modern times, disappeared without trace in 1996. Beginning as a field assistant to well-known Austrian anthropologist Fuerer Haimendorf, with whom he had strained relations, he was largely self-trained. He wrote several books,…
This film is an ode to the commonplace. Its four segments or chapters are slighter narratives that the commonplace, everyday situations, yield and with interest; all was needed was a steady gaze of interest to discover these. The film is an observational (in the filming) and a just a positioning (in…
On April 25, 2015 Nepal was hit by a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale. Among the worst hit in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake was the prime trekking destination of Langtang. A glacial collapse caused an avalanche of rock, ice and mud, resulting in an airblast, equal to half the force of the Hiroshima…
This is an unusually intimate portrait of a state-run hospital in one of Nepal’s most remote and poorest districts of Kalikot in West Nepal. For medical personnel, it is the kind of posting that is to be avoided or to quickly escape from. In capturing the daily goings-on of the hospital, the film…
This film explores the fragile ground where love and unlove cohabit, illuminating a rare space where the two are in close proximity but distinct. A unique Scottish Presbyterian home was founded by a missionary at the turn of the century in British India. It takes in orphans, mainly destitute Anglo-Indian…
They call themselves ‘corner’ people. No settlement lies beyond their high hills. The poorest among them are sub-subsistence; there is no electricity, and not a single shop. Children attend a 3-room school that goes up only to class 3; after that they must walk 4 hours daily. Villagers walk…
