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Category: Documentaries

The Magic Mountain

2005 Banff Mountain Film Festival: Won: People’s Choice Award This exhilarating film tells the offbeat story of educator Cynthia Hunt, who founded HEALTH (Health, Environment and Literacy in the Himalayas) in Jammu & Kashmir’s remotest region, the high plateau of Ladakh. Her concerted efforts to empower illiterate mountain women take viewers on an inspiring journey […]

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The Day My God Died

International Emmy Awards 2004: Nomination: Best Documentary Indian Film Festival 2004 – Won: Audience Choice Award The Day My God Died is a hard-hitting documentary exposing the South Asian sex trade, in which young women and girls as young as 8 are taken away from their homes to work in the brothels of India’s big […]

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From Brothel To Bridehood

From Brothel to Bridehood introduces us to a cast of young women who have escaped an existence of forced prostitution in Bombay’s infamous red-light district. Most of the girls originate in Nepal and have been trafficked into the sex trade, some even by their own relatives. The film is about the inspiring work of the […]

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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2008 Won: Joris Ivens Award, Movies That Matter Award Bodil Awards 2009 ; Won: Bodil Best Documentary Robert Festival 2009 ; Won: Robert Best Documentary Sundance Film Festival 2009 ; Won: World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award Nominated: Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – Documentary An urgent and compelling documentary […]

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Hockey Night In Ladakh

Every year, a ramshackle ice hockey team formed of expat Canadians who live and work in Delhi makes the journey up to Leh to take on the local team of Ladakh. As temperatures plunge below zero for several months of the year, Ladakhis began playing ice hockey thirty years ago, equipped with the most basic […]

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Riding Solo To The Top Of The World (PG)

Selected for 21 festivals and in total Winner of 12 Awards including: 53rd National Film Awards, India 2006 – Won : Best Non-Feature Film Kathmandu Mountain Film Festival 2006 – Won: Audience Award Best Documentary Independent South Asian Film Festival 2007: – Won: Audience Award BANFF Mountain Film Festival 2009: – Nominated: Documentary finalist A […]

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Shining Spirit (PG)

BANFF Mountain Film Festival 2009 – Nominated: Documentary finalist In 1998 Jamyang Yeshi, a singer and musician from the Amdo region of Tibet, fled his country and settled in Dharamsala, India. After eight years he eventually settled in Canada, while his brother Tsundue made his home in the United States. As exiles, neither of the […]

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One Crazy Ride (15)

A new film from madcap Bombay roadrunner Gaurav Jani, One Crazy Ride takes us to the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, on India’s remote Northeastern border with China. To this day, few roads have penetrated the knot of hills and ravines, and the valleys are cut with rivers rushing down from Tibet to the plains of […]

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Blindsight (PG)

Berlinale 2007 : Won : Audience Award Best Film AFI Fest 2006 : Won : Best Documentary International Film Festival Ghent 2006, Belgium – Won Audience Award British Independent Film Awards 2006 – Nomination : Best Documentary A beautiful and uplifting film, Blindsight is the story of six blind Tibetan teenagers’ brave attempt to climb […]

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The Boy Who Plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan (15)

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2004 Won: Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award – Honorable Mention Royal Television Society, UK 2004 ; Won: RTS Television Award Best Music – Original Score Valladolid International Film Festival 2004 Won Best Documentary Eight-year-old Mir Hussain lives at Bamiyan, in a cave beside the ruins of the famous stone […]

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