1997 Movies

Karmi Soren’s, a Lodha Tribal, struggle to establish a school in her village

Documenting the theyyam rituals of northern Kerala

An ethnographic description of snake charmers and their role in Pakistani society along with supernatural tales and legends of snakes.

The Newars of Kathmandu celebrate Indrayani and sacrifice of live serpents into the sacrificial fire.

Marubhumi is about the story of water in Rajasthan, India and offers glimpses of history, policies and the development of water harvesting in ancient...

A ballet staged by Angelin Preljocaj and recorded at the Avignon Festival.

Documenting the dying cremation ceremony of the Lyngngams or Megam sub-tribe of Meghalaya

A look at the various problems regarding "child development" in the background of rural and urban Pakistan.

Lives and struggles of women in the mountains of Pakistan

It is a filmmaker's odyssey in his trouble-torn homeland. The film symbolizes the narrator;s search for his past, present and future; a compilation of...

A Bengali politcal singer’s persecution and fame

Rural women’s successful movement in Andhrapradesh to force the state to declare prohibition of alcohol

A conniving muscleman with the strength and appetite of a dozen men; a prince kidnapped as a child returns to claim his throne disguised as a beast; a...

Nakalevara – Death and rebirth of Darubarhma Jagannath

Chronicling the life and times of dancer Tehreema Mitha, the camera examines the role of traditional Hindustani and modern dance in the contemporary P...

Ashgari Bai is one of the oldest exponents alive of the dying art of Drupad, the most orthodox form of Hindustani Classical music. The story about the...

Rural peasant women in India struggle to maintain traditional farming practices in defiance of the spread of technologically-based cultivation in this...

Featuring shy eight-year-old Ajit, a small village boy sent to work in a Calcuttan household, the unobtrusive camera watches him closely as he diligen...

The life of Lalon Fakir, the mysterious bard.

Seethalakshmi was born in an uprooted tribal family, now settled on the banks of a river in North Kerala, India. She grew up adhering to the tradition...