Around India with a Movie Camera

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

The Ramayana

The Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay performs a "puppet ballet" of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

1965

Meena

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

2014

Between the Lines: India's Third Gender

Repping best view to date into the world of the Indian eunuch, “Between the Lines: India’s Third Gender” may not answer all the questions it poses, bu

2005

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

Villenour (French India: Territory of Pondicherry)

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

1914

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

Ruins of Delhi

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

1910

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

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

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

Herzschlag der Kontinente

1987

Guru, A Hijra Family

Set in a small town in the region of Tamil Nadu, in southern India, the film follows the days and works of a hijra family. Silky, Mahima, Trisha, Durg

2016

Top Gear: India Special

The gang embarks on a trade mission to India. Equipped with three old British cars and a range of uniquely British products, they set off on an epic r

2011

India's forgotten people

2020

One Ticket Please

A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every

2017

Sapera

In the holy city of Varanasi, 16-year-old Ali has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world – catching poisonous snakes. The boy balances life and d

2019

Indocam

A travelogue about India. But it is more than a video about a foreign place. We follow the director's itinerary and witness his chance encounters with

2022