Dance is the state of being that transcends one's physical self, delving into deep states of resonating minds in a spectrum of timelessness, of time-past, time-present and time-future.

THE THINKING BODY interprets the mind of the character it portrays through spiritual layers.

Indian Classical dance forms provide a perfect vehicle for interactions of varied emotions and rasas in perfect harmony, irrespective of time, space and gender.

Daouda Coulibaly is a Malian French director. He grew up in Marseilles, France. After a few years in audiovisual editing, he opted to be a director, and then he made his first short film, A History of Independence, inspired from a traditional tale.

Further to the good impression made by A History of Independence, he was retained by the programme Focus Features – Africa First.

Tale of Kurdish Yazidi, a small, non-Islamic religious community with close ties to nature.

Ceci, a senior, who works as a salesman in eastern Turkey's Kurds and the adpto yazidismo. The yazidismo is a religion that grants the title of world's oldest.

In the film, he finds himself stuck in the role curious Yazidi belief in magic circle. The surprising outcome shows the difficulties that minority coexisting with the majority Islamic country.

Deniz Çinar was born in 1979.
He is from Giresun city, Turkey. He graduated from the Faculty of Communication Gazi University (Ankara)

"Valaam, island of the monks", a documentary by François Lespes, about the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam, an island in Lake Ladoga, frozen in ice six months a year.

Valaam islands, frozen six months a year in the ice of Lake Ladoga, houses the oldest monastery in Russia.

This documentary aims to discover the daily life of the monks of Valaam: handwork, painting icons, great liturgies at night …

Portrait of a renaissance in faith, which makes this extraordinary place, the impressive symbol of the spiritual resurrection of Russia.
 

My Reincarnation is a drama between father and son, spanning two decades and three generations.

The film addresses spirituality, cultural survival, identity, heritage, family, growing into maturity, aging, Buddhism, and past and future lives.

The film follows the Tibetan spiritual master Namkhai Norbu, who struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his son, Khyentse Yeshi Namkhai (Yeshi), who stubbornly refuses to follow in the footsteps of his father.

Yeshi was recognized at birth as the reincarnation of his father's uncle, a spiritual teacher who was killed by the Chinese in Tibet.

But though Yeshi craves a normal life, he cannot escape his fate.

The documentary traces the beginning of Heng Kian Tian, a Singapore Taoist spirit medium temple, just after the fall of Singapore in 1942.

The challenges and growth of temple is intertwined with Singapore’s journey from a colony to an independent new nation and from a Third World to the First World.

What is the social function of spirit mediumship in the world of consumerism? What alternative narratives await the insightful visitor?

Dies ist keine normale Musikdokumentation, auch wenn Regisseurin El Madani die Band Gnawa Diffusion bei ihren mitreißenden Konzerten durch Europa begleitet und die Trancemusik beim Sufi-Festival in Essaouira in bewegte und bewegende Bilder bannt.

Für sie ist es der Versuch, unterschiedliche Identitäten zusammen zu bringen, und sie geht damit Kindheitserinnerungen nach: ihre Mutter bei der Trance-Meditation, erfüllt von der Musik der Gnawa.

Through her films, Rahma Benhamou El Madani discovers and examines her multiple identities.

Her latest film Tagnawittude also allows her to rediscover gnawa music and its mystical practices.

 

Today, they number apparently more than 100,000 in North America. The film gives an account of this black Judaism, through an African community – that of Cameroon, with Serge Etélé as its leader.

Laurence Gavron hails from France. She now lives in Dakar, Senegal, where she is a film director and a writer. Fascinated by African cultures, she has produced documentaries on local musicians, griots and on the work of the film director Djibril Diop Mambéty.

She also writes regularly for the local newspapers and took part in several photo exhibitions. To date, Laurence Gavron is the author of three novels.

Youth group members, most raised by immigrant Buddhist parents, attempt to define Buddhism on their own terms as they struggle to understand the rituals and beliefs of their parents’ Buddhism. Interweaving the stories of teenagers in the midst of their identity formation and young adults faced with the challenge of cultivating the next generation of Buddhist youth leaders, Youth Group paints a lighthearted and intimate portrait of generational gap, hyphenated-identities, and flexible beliefs in Asian America.