Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.
Social & External
Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.
Kathakali performance featuring the great Indian dancer Guru Gopinath.
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.
Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
Muharram procession through Lahore bazaar, crowded streets and buildings.
Film of local events in Ajmer province including the fair at Pushkar.
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.
Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.
A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.
A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Land Rush documents the hopes, fears, wishes, and demands of small-scale subsistence farmers in the region who look to benefit, or lose out, from the deal.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
Gods in Shackles is an expose revealing the dark side of the Indian state of Kerala's glamorous cultural festivities that exploit temple elephants for profit in the name of culture and religion.
The people and their labor are bound to the land in the cycle of activities to the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or subtitles, the film conveys a sense of unity between the people and the land. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul. The theme of the film focuses on rural economics. The film and accompaning instructor notes focus on herding, and fishing under diverse environmental conditions. The impact of technological change, human adaptation, and governmental extension of market systems are parallel themes.
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