BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
Looks at a rage of Hindu activities in a North India village: rituals performed by different castes, an exorcism sequence, a wedding ritual, a Sattya Narain puja, a pilgrimage to the Ganges, and a variety of...
A journey through the heart of India, from Delhi in the north through Benares, the sacred city on the Ganges; through Jaidal, a village in the Ganges plain; through Calcutta, India’s largest city; and into...
Looks at life of the Jain community in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Description of ancient and modern temples. Interviews with monks and nuns, and with believers who come to the temple to make...
Examines various forms of Hinduism in Calcutta and raises fundamental questions about how the term ‘religion’ is used and about the legitimacy of applying this Western concept to the realities of other...
Two programmes looking at life in Vietnam today and examining the changes underway which are aimed at gaining Vietnam a place in the modern industrialised world. 1: Long a target of invaders due to its...
Focuses on four Sadhus (holy men) as a means of portraying the variety of devotional paths open to religious Hindus and examining the Sadhus’ role in present-day Indian society. The bulk of the film...
Part 1: Briefly opens in Calcutta then goes to the South in search of traditional India, of religious piety, of the agricultural problems showing aspects of the daily lives of fishermen and peasants. Some...
Survey by Ronald Eyre of the world’s major religions. Each part shows encounters with men and women an attempts to capture something of the faith and understanding of individual people. 1: The Hindu...
The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...
This documentary maps the evolution of the ancient ethnic dance form of Chau - an athletic dance of India done by men in masks - from an anthropological and sociological perspective. In addition to following...
Related searches have been automatically generated using the OpenCalais semantic analysis service.
Learning on Screen
