Street Scenes in India

Ancient India

This Traveltalk series short visits a few locations where the centuries-old traditions of ancient India are kept alive in contemporary times.

1952

Mind of Clay

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

1985

Arrival

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of consumption/exploitation t

1980

Traceable

Traceable follows Laura Siegel, a fashion designer who takes a critical look at the fashion supply chain and fast fashion industry, travels through I

2014

The Warp and the Weft

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives ar

2015

The Last Days of the Raj

Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to

2007

Song from the Forest

25 years ago, Louis Sarno, an American, heard a song on the radio and followed its melody into the Central Africa Jungle and stayed. He than recorded

2014

Maharajah of the Road

A Dream Trip Across India Some kilometers from Bombay, the Indian megalopolis, lost on a hill of Bollywood, is the grandiose set of a vast temple wit

2012

James Bond in India

The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.

1983

Meena

Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story.

2014

A Punjab Village

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

1925

A Road in India

Life on the road in India, showing the traffic, people and animals.

1938

Temples of India

Hindu temples at Benares and Belur and the mythologies associated with them.

1938

Herzschlag der Kontinente

1987

Fascinating India

"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal re

2014

Information for/from Outsiders: Chronicles from Kashmir

Chronicles from Kashmir seeks to create a sense of “balance”: between differently positioned voices that emerge when speaking about Kashmir; between d

2019

An Indian Day

Director S. Sukhdev traveled the length of India to gather footage for his impressionistic portrait of the country in the year 1967. The film produces

1968

Surviving Mumbai

Survivors of the Mumbai terrorist attacks tell the inside story of the actions and decisions that helped save their lives.

2009

Ruins of Delhi

Attractive travelogue filmed in and around Delhi's Qutb complex.

1910

Villenour (French India: Territory of Pondicherry)

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

1914