India Collection: Beyond Borders

This section explores cinema that focuses on India's neighbors -- Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Tibet and Afghanistan.

This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village…

The young student Anu (Nurul Islam Bablu) is torn between the worlds of Hindu and Muslim religions in this…

It is caravan time in Dolpo, high in the Himalayas of Nepal. The villagers must trek for days across the mountains…

Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf presents this partially fictionalized documentary that illustrates the…

The first Afghan film to be made since the end of the Taliban regime, OSAMA is a poetic portrayal of the struggle…

American actor John Malkovich was so impressed by Santosh Sivan's striking directorial debut that he personally…

Drawing from Tibetan medical teachings, KNOWLEDGE OF HEALING aims to widen viewers' knowledge of non-western…

Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama THE CUP (PHORPA), about…

In 1996, twenty artists as diverse as KRS-1, John Lee Hooker, and Noel Gallagher gathered for a benefit concert…

THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in…

Academy Award winning filmmaker Paul Wagner's courageous exploration of the political and cultural oppression…

Winner of the NY Film Festival's 2004 Feature Film Genre Award, HIDDEN TREASURE is the debut from Nepalese…

After a new beauty shop was set up in Kabul following the overthrow of the Taliban, a documentary crew travelled…

In this moving documentary, Afghan-American director Sedika Mojadidi follows her OB/GYN father as he returns…

Fast-motion footage of clouds passing and daylight shifting over architect Louis I. Kahn's most famous buildings…