A professional dancer named Mona moves to a village with her agent Sane for work. Mona falls in love with Sarja, who saves her from committing suicide. In a tiff with Sane, Mona injures her feet losing her ability to dance, for life. Sane betrays her, while Mona vows to get revenge.
20世纪初,印度有一条名叫Tumbbad的小村庄,Vinayak就住在村庄的郊外,他是村长不承认的私生子,痴迷于神话中一个祖传宝藏。他的曾祖母是一个被诅咒沉睡千年的女巫,Vinayak认为宝藏的秘密就藏在她身上。经过与曾祖母的对质,Vinayak最终直面宝藏的守护者邪恶的堕落之神。最初的几枚金币迅速升级变成一种不计后果,跨越几个世纪,永恒不灭的渴望,倘若Vinayak如愿以偿,这种渴望将变成一种会延续至下一代的魔咒。
In India, Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of giving her young daughter an education and will go to any length to make that happen, including leaving behind all she knows in search of a better future.
In Sicily, Giulia works in her father’s wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she discovers that her family’s live...
Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.
Narba, a simple man lives in his wadi in Konkan - a grove that is rich with coconut trees and also has banana, supari and betel nut plantations. A gift from his ancestors, Narba nurtures this grove with love. One day a greedy landlord Rangarao eyes it and wants the wadi at any cost. Will he succeed?
When Bhagwan Shri Jagannath and his brother, Bhagwan Shri Balabhadra, refuse to partake offerings from a lower-caste woman, Shriya. Devi Maa Lakshmi is offended and puts a curse on both of them. The duo, hungry and homeless, go from village to village, house to house in search of food. What they don't realize is that Devi Maa, in collusion with Vayu Dev, Agni Dev, and Pawan Dev is determined to teach both of them a lesson they will never forget.
本片是法国新浪潮开山导演路易?马勒最著名的记录片。马勒在赴印度参加法国电影展以后,带着便携式摄影机,以即时纪录的方式,拍摄了《印度魅影》系列片。影片站在一个外国人角度,以"直接电影"理念,向观众展示出摄影机前真实的印度,包含《不可思议的摄像机》、《马德拉斯见闻》、《印度人与宗教》、《梦想与现实》、《印度的种族阶级》、《印度社会的边缘》、《孟买——印度的未来》这几部短片,展现了印度的方方面面。这一套影片在英国电视台和其他国家播放时,在全球引起广泛的兴趣,印度政府向电视台发出严重抗议,甚至采用外交手段驱逐BBC的印度员工。但无论如何,这一套影片已经是记录电影史上的经典之作。马勒还以同样手法剪辑了《加尔各答》。
Radha is a resolute mother, who strives hard against poverty and a lecherous money lender to feed her two sons who grew up with contrasting temperament.