Digital Himalaya Films & Video
University of Cambridge
Digital Himalaya is presently expanding its online collections to include contemporary film and video. These will be streamed online through the SMS and hosted on the Digital Himalaya website.
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University of Cambridge · 14 January 2016
Shot in Sikkim in August 2008, the film highlights the Tendong festival celebrated by the Lepcha community. Alongside the festivities, this legendary folk tale reveals the significance of Tendong hill …
University of Cambridge · 13 January 2016
Angel of the Aboriginals is a documentary film about the life of anthropologist and tribal activist Dr Verrier Elwin. Dr. Elwin lived and worked with the Apatani, Tagin, Nocte, Adi, …
University of Cambridge · 11 December 2015
Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army is an HD documentary that follows several Nepali boys and girls as they attempt to reintegrate into society after associating with armed Maoist …
University of Cambridge · 15 February 2011
Human rights defenders share their views ahead of Nepal's first Universal Periodic Review by the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Documentary commissioned by the British Embassy in Kathmandu, featuring HM …
University of Cambridge · 26 January 2011
No state support, no infrastructure, no money - no problem. Educational charity Hindu-Vidyapeeth Nepal celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010. We hear from founder Chintamani Yogi on how the schools …
The Way of the Road is a film about a road which is being built to the Tibetan border to help relieve poverty in Nepal’s northern districts. The film journeys …
This is a 40-minute experimental film about the life of Brian Houghton Hodgson, sent to Nepal as Assistant Commissioner in 1819, becoming a British Resident in 1833. Brian Houghton Hodgson …
This 40-minute experimental film about Christoph and Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf was made by Mark Turin in August 1996. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna. In 1949, …
The child's voice of nine–year–old Punam Tamang transports us to the Nepal city of Bhaktapur. There we are presented with a stark description of the hard life of this young …
I Will Find You (2011) is the story of three characters with a shared destiny; three individuals and a country, all torn apart by war. To many people, these individuals …