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  1. India’s Daughter (2015)

    Director
    Leslee Udwin
    Producer
    Leslee Udwin
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 62 mins), $395

    INDIA’S DAUGHTER is the story of the 2012, brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23-year-old medical student, who later died from her injuries. In 2012, it made international headlines and ignited protests...

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  2. Haider (2014 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Vishal Bhardwaj
    Subject
    Shakespeare

    Bollywood version of Hamlet. Ophelia is a young journalist, Polonious a policeman, Laertes works for a multinational and Hamlet is a philosophy student from Kasmir, the former Himalayan province. The film...

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  3. Amchi (2013)

    Director
    Eda Elif Tibet
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £39.00

    For centuries the only medical system accessible to people in Ladakh was the Amchi, the traditional doctor following ‘Sowa Rigpa’, Tibetan medicine. 84% of Ladakh’s population lives in villages and...

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  4. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (2012)

    Director
    Shrenik Rao
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £12.99

    This documentary by Indian filmmaker Shrenik Rao traces the political career of Robert Mugabe, from fighter for independence and president of a free Zimbabwe to despotic leader of a country bankrupt,...

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  5. Celluloid Man (2012)

    Director
    Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 164 minutes), £12.99

    CELLULOID MAN is a tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, a man whose childhood fascination with cinema finally led to the creation of the National Film Archive of India. In a country...

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  6. Ophelia (2011 Film)

    Director
    Greta Mendez
    Producer
    Greta Mendez; Mat de Koning
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor known (8/2011).

    Independent fiction short. "T’o have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" (Hamlet Act 3 Sc i). The painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, is used as a metaphor for Kashmir, a country caught...

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  7. Ritual Journeys (2011)

    Director
    Dawa T Lepcha
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £50.00

    The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for individuals as...

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  8. Calcutta Calling (2008)

    Director
    André Hörmann
    Subject
    Business studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 17 minutes), £15.00

    "Business Process Outsourcing" is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and...

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  9. Black Mountain (2008)

    Director
    Charlotte Whitby-Coles; Amin Hajee
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £50.00

    A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten. This film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD research...

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  10. Last Lear, The (2007 Film)

    Director
    Rituparno Ghosh
    Producer
    Arindam Chowdhun

    Feature film. An ageing Shakespearean actor (Bachchan) is gravely ill, the rigours of a film shoot having left him in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam (Zinta), is deeply worried, but their director, Siddharth...

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