What’s the hidden message inside this intriguing film, shot at a Salvation Army establishment in western India?
Aging parents of disabled adults, they worry about their child's life after their disappearance. A moving insight into the daily life of a family home in the Vendée region, which offers them the prospect of a peaceful future.
2022
"Soup, soap, salvation." True to this motto, the Salvation Army cares for the marginalized and needy. Officer Fredi Inniger also visits homeless and lonely old people in the city of Zurich. Director Thomas Thümena accompanies Inniger in his busy everyday life with his camera.
2023
This sex education movie explore themes of body development, sexual hygiene, masturbation, menstruation, puberty, sex and giving birth.
1991
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.
1937
Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.
1912
Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.
1933
The Maharajah of Kapurthala and guests travel on elephants and men catch fish on the River Bias.
1911
From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.
1935
An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.
1931
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
1913
Salvation Army General Commissioner Edward Higgins features in the this film of a brass band parade through a village.
1904
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.
1936
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
1947
An elephantine spectacle, likely part of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India.
1905
Richly detailed record of the Prince of Wales' Indian tour.
1922
The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty.
Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.
1923
A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.
1934
The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.
Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.