Ayurveda: Art of Being

The Last Maneater: Killer Tigers of India

2003 · ★ 8

Sunderbans (Forest of Beauty) is in West Bengal, India, and is the only place on Earth that is the natural habitat of Royal Bengal Tigers that have never known to be fearful of humans. One tiger has been known to kill three fully grown men, leaving behind orphans and widows who belong to poor tribes, dependent on harvesting wild honey and fishing, in a swampy mangrove region. About 80 people are killed annually by these ferocious beasts with razor-sharp jaws, whose forepaws can shatter bones, and sharp teeth can pierce a skull in one bite. Amidst religious superstitions, the narrator attempts to explain the cause behind their taste for human meat in a region devoid of electricity, roadways, firearms and safe drinking water, and why the villagers continue to live there despite of being stalked and mauled on land and water alike.

Return of the Clouded Leopards

2012 · ★ 8.3

Two rare 6-week-old clouded leopard cubs are given to a filmmaker, giving him the opportunity of a lifetime to examine the secret lives of big cats.

The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

2013 · ★ 8

A documentary about the life and work of seminal mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Tiger

2024 · ★ 8.1

Journey alongside a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India.

Solaris - als Grundfrage der Philosophie

2003

Documentary in which Michael Rosenhahn explains the philosophical subtext of the film Solaris (1972).

It's a Beautiful World

2014 · ★ 5.4

Richard Beymer first met David Lynch when Lynch cast him as Ben Horne in the series Twin Peaks. Years later, Lynch saw one of Richard's documentaries on the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and asked him to come to India to document a journey he was making tracing Maharishi's footsteps from one end of India to the other. This film is not just a record of their 10-day journey, it's also a rare and personal look at David Lynch "unplugged."

Feedback

2010

Even death is in movement, since the soul is going someplace else. A short film inspired by Jacques Languirand's philosophic work.

Mask Art of Majuli

This film creatively documents the art of Majuli masks, focusing on the only two families that keep the practice alive in Natun Chamaguri Satra, including multi-awared mask maker Dr. Hem Chandra Goswami.

Farewell, My Indian Soldier

2016 · ★ 6

A young woman researches the hidden story of Indian soldiers who came to fight in France and Belgium during the World War I. The presence of these 140,000 soldiers in Europe is a virtually unknown fact of history.

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel

2014 · ★ 1

On the first day of shooting, James Franco, David Shields, and Caleb Powell throw out the script when a real-life argument breaks out between the three of them about what can and can't be used in the film. Shields and Franco browbeat Powell to sacrifice everything for the sake of the film; Powell threatens to leave; Shields feels guilty about betraying Powell; and Franco wants Shields and Powell to confess all for the sake of the film. A debate, nearly to the death, about life and art.

Colours By Numbers: The Sudokumentary

2009

Australia's first national sudoku team The Numbats - four ex-rugby mates - travel into the unknown of competitive puzzling as they enter the World Sudoku Championships in Goa, India.

The Cat

1968 · ★ 6

Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay style for a very popular variety program on Dutch television: each new program was to start from the last image of the previous program, developing the story from that image. It was necessary to work according to codes of the crime thriller. I 'sabotaged' these codes, following a close-up of a pistol, inherited from my predecessor, by a series of comic observations of my cat, accompanied by a text on the need to innovate methods of expression and communication in cinema."