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Shanghai Deco is a one-hour documentary on the Art Deco design style popular in 1930s Shanghai. During the 1920s and 30s, Shanghai was the most glamorous, cosmopolitan city in Asia. Dubbed “The Paris of the East,” it had both an expatriate community and a middle-class Chinese population…
A portrayal of the collective life of two migrant worker groups, their struggle and lost dreams, in Shanghai. One of is consisted mainly of middle-aged workers, working away from home to support their family. Their daily life can seem monotonous. The one thing they want the most is to be able to walk…
Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living in university campuses and in the city. The protagonists are students and young artists from Shanghai. The short movies give an insight into the life of urban people struggling between oriental tradition and modern life.…
"Set in Zanskar, Indian Himalaya, Shangku Shelter is a story of two decades of adventure, friendship and social change, driven by a love of skiing. Zanskar is a remote kingdom in the northwest Indian Himalaya, where local people are snow-bound for six months of the year. About 10,000 Zanskaris live…
In this essayistic travelogue, Mirka Duijn explores the history of the image of Shangri-La - the famous, imaginary paradise from James Hilton’s novel, ‘Lost Horizon’. Two decades ago, a Tibetan region in China, Deqin, claimed it was the original Shangri-La of legend. This rich and complex…
Across the roof of the world: where heaven meets earth. A rare, intimate view of the fast changing world known as Tibet. A world ancient and modern, rarefied and gritty. A paradise captured by National Geographic's acclaimed photographer, Michael Yamashita, before the mysteries of the Tea Horse…
When H. H. the Dalai Lama traveled throughout English speaking countries he had a version of this prayer by Shantideva distributed to the students. This song was adapted from that text and modified by Prema Dasara who shares it world wide as a sacred dance practice. This version was filmed in Brazil…
Step into Shaolin White Crane Class with Master Yang Master Yang, Jwing-Ming (楊俊敏博士) leads a fascinating masterclass on Hard-style Qìgōng (energy work). Hard-style Qìgōng significantly improves your circulation and leads the Qi (energy) to the muscles, tendons and skin in order to energize…
A groundbreaking seminar on the current developments in the Muslim and Western worlds in the light of Quranic paradigms, Prophetic thinking, historical lessons and current context, delivered by one of the foremost scholars and thinkers of the Western world today. The seminar covers: The portrayal…
Six young Cypriots who have never met each other before, three who live north of and three who live south of the UN controlled buffer zone in Cyprus, are invited to share a house for five days. Together they will travel across divided Cyprus in an attempt to explore their identities as Cypriots. They…
SHARING THE HARVEST tells the story of farmers who oppose the growth compulsion of our system and break out of the structures of conventional agriculture. Filmmaker and activist Philipp Petruch takes the film on a journey to three solidarity farming initiatives who are united by a clear goal: with the…
