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Ask the Sexpert

A sex columnist gains popularity even while a ban on comprehensive sex education in schools is adopted by approximately a third of India’s states.

2016

A Crow Has Been Calling for a Whole Day

　　Originally created as an installation for the third Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale this film is a gripping diary and travelogue of a trip the filmmaker made through India. She tries to grasp India’s love and thoughts, the sentiments and everyday conditions and the experience of disease and death.

Boat Repairs - Sunderbans

Boats and steamers on the mud flats and lakes of the Assam district, India.

1926

Scenes at his Excellency the Viceroys's Garden Party at Belvedere

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

1929

India

Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.

1930

The Truth Will Out

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Native Life in Bundi

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

1931

Kagan Valley

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

1950

Gefährliche Jagd

A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage.

1933

Simla and Lahore

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

Delhi - Jubilee

Amateur footage of Delhi and Jaipur, from a military review to an atmospheric torchlit procession - and some armour-plated elephants.

1937

Darjeeling

This amateur film gives us a fair idea of the opulent life enjoyed by members of the British government in India.

8.0

Fruit Farm

Nana Xu travels to the place built by her father as a prisoner during the Cultural Revolution: first a work camp, later a prison, fruit farm and treatment centre. Conversations with last remaining witnesses, where home is still shaped by a repressed past.

1934

Devil Dancers of Sikkim

Hear the Lama band, see the sacred dances: welcome to Sikkim, in the shadow of the Himalayas.

1922

Montreal and India

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

1936

Lahore

Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.

1937

Ajmer

Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.

Gangtok and Sikkim Trip

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

7.7

1988

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.

Delhi to the North West Frontier

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

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6.2

2002

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7.7

2007

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6.4

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2012

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6.1

2009

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2022

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6.8

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7.6

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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

7.4

2016

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6.4

2024

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7.1

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2004

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7.3

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1984

Bruce Lee, the Legend

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