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- In 1920s Los Angeles, a bedridden patient in a hospital captivates a young girl with a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island.
- An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
- A boy and his beloved imaginary friend are able to stay together at an orphanage of sorts for imaginary friends that children have outgrown to be adopted by new children.
- Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
- A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- The farcical adventures of an unhappy, sometimes suicidal, billionaire Arthur Lempereur in Hong Kong and the Himalayas.
- Prem, the younger prince of the Kingdom of Khazaag, born in an auspicious astrological time to be the future King goes through his biggest obstacle in life, Geet, his only love.
- Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
- On the Annapurna Massif, Tukten, a young Nepali man setting off for a new life as a laborer in Dubai, encounters an older Australian woman who causes him to change course and discover his homeland in a new light.
- Four groups of athletes embark on four never-before-accomplished missions.
- Set in Colonial India in 1925 this is an adaptation of Jim Corbett's hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.
- Feature-length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth (2006), following the migration paths of four animal families.
- Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
- Three young Tibetans struggle for freedom against the Chinese communist regime. Windhorse was filmed clandestinely inside Tibet and in Nepal. It was the first digital feature film, shot in 1996 on a Sony DVW-700WS and a consumer Sony DCR-VX1000 and edited on avid with digital finishing and color correction at RolandHouse in Washington, DC.
- Ben and Victoria are tested to their physical and mental limits as they attempt to scale the world's highest mountain.
- During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmers' collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.
- A group of spiritual seekers journey to India and Pakistan to study Qawwali music from the masters of this 1000-year old Sufi music tradition.
- A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide".
- A celebration of the wild and free paragliding lifestyle, following the adventures of Venezuelan pilots Herminio Cordido and Jorge Atramiz on a journey of a lifetime to the top paragliding locations in the world -- Angel Falls, Venezuela; the Himalayas in Nepal the Dolomite Mountains in Italy; Zagora, Morocco; and Slovenia.
- The film tells the expedition, led by Georges Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and sponsored by André Citoën, leaving Beirut in Lebanon to rally China through the ancient Silk Road with half-tracks vehicles, between 1931 and 1932.
- This documentary was released in France 1953 only 8 weeks before Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest. The first 8,000 m peak to be climbed was the Annapurna I, three years earlier in 1950, by a French expedition including Maurice Herzog, Lionel Terray, Gaston Rébuffat, Jean Crouzy, Marcel Schutz, Jacques Oudot, Francis de Noyelle an cinematographer Marcel Ichac, the only one who had already an Himalayan experience (see 'Karakoram', film of 1936 awarded at Venice Film Festival in 1938). It's an epic adventure filmed in difficult conditions by an expert of mountain film and which ended in an anticlimax of disasters and injuries.
- The life and healing practices of a tribe in the Himalayas in north-western Nepal.
- The story of "Kalu Hima" is based on avalanche and flash flood surged down the Seti river (Annapurna IV) in Nepal on May 05, 2012.
- A teenage boy from a small Himalayan villages has to choose between his duty to tend to the family home, and his ambitions to study abroad.
- On 2017, Andoni Canela starts a travel with his kid Unai looking for the great felines around the world. Working as photographer for National Geographic, Andoni attempts to expose the beauty and fierceness of the animals as panthers, lions, tigers, lynxes and leopards, in addition with another animals by the zones as giraffes, hippopotamus or alligators. Unai, 13 at 2017, is a boy who not only lives a different teenage, but a real adventure discovering places and animals as he never could imagine. Alone in the nature with a few cameras and drones as only one company, father and son make a travel including ten countries of four continents. In the trying to film the legendary snow leopard of Himalayas, one of the animals most difficult to see and photograph, Andoni and Unai live an four-years odyssey to claim the importance for preserving the environment as all the animals that inhabit it.
- Ammodo Docs presents artistic shorts about original minds. Fifteen-minute films by leading Dutch filmmakers challenge you to experience the world of pioneers in arts and science.
- Two brothers travel to Nepal to form part of a Mexican expedition to the Himalayas.
- TV Mini Series
- In Nepal, an isolated tribe known as the Gurung go on the hunt for a special honey perched high upon a series of cliffs. The honey is known for its hallucinogenic potency, and is often taken for recreational use or medicinal purposes by the villagers. Hallucinogen Honey Hunters takes viewers on a rarely glimpsed journey to this region, and observes the culture surrounding this mystical honey.
- A solo film maker researches the Mysterious Himalayan Wolf due to the recent increasing amount of attacks on Yaks in Nepal.
- In July of 2006, after reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat at 26,657 feet above sea level, José Antonio Delgado was trapped alone by a fierce storm. The events that transpired during the following days came together to create a moving story of perseverance, courage, and love. "Beyond the Summit" takes us deep into the soul of this noble climber as he guides us through a journey to the summit of the world's most daunting mountains. Explore with us the mind of a man whose courage, love, and spirit will forever touch the soul of an entire continent. Through his own eyes, "Beyond the Summit" reveals the contagious spirit and philosophy that drives this climber's hunt for the summit.
- This is a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai, who lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, and his extraordinary journey. Hari is a student. However, he also works as a porter so that he could pay for his tuition and cover his living expenses. Although very young, he already has three years of experience carrying loads up and down the mountain, mostly tourists' backpacks. This time, he gets a job to carry a huge red refrigerator from the top of the mountain, to the nearest town. We follow Hari Rai on his journey through the fascinating Himalayan landscapes, we discover Hari's inner life, his thoughts, hopes and dreams and we also get to know the culture and the local people's way of life in this region. We learn about their relation with the most important aspects of their lives: family, nature and religion. Out of 60,000 child porters in Nepal, Hari is one of the few lucky ones to have a chance of going to school. We can see what it takes for him to get his education.
- Due to the many lives lost on Mount Everest every year a film maker overcomes his biggest fears and attempts to climb single handedly to the highest point on earth. An inner calling challenges his deepest darkest fear with a reward to provide some relief for those likely to meet their end on the most hostile place on earth. The almost impossible feat for a solo climber is met with other worldly challenges that restricts the unassisted and unsupported climber from accessing the very core of his mission. To save a human life.
- An expedition to Everest Base Camp became a discovery of their greater purpose.
- Observations of a 3000 miles journey through the Himalayas on the highest motorbike route in the world.
- Prof. Dyhrenfurth of Switzerland leads an international expedition heading into the Himalayan Mountains.
- Peter Wath travels to Nepal and the Himalayas. Danmarks Radio (Danish television broadcaster) and Jyllands-Posten (one of the leading Danish newspapers) join forces to produce this travel documentary.
- Pressure to do well...get into an IIT, get into an IIM. Have you ever felt what goes on inside the students head. Here is small but scary glimpse.
- Goodbye Tibet is the story of a 20,000-foot high mountain pass on the border between Tibet and Nepal. For thousands of Tibetan refugees it has been their gateway to freedom - but for many it has been a fatal gauntlet. It is the story of Kelsang Jigme, a legend among the Tibetan guides who help refugees escape over the treacherous mountain pass. And it is the story of six children sent by their parents into freedom - and exile - across the highest mountain range in the world, and of the heartbreak of their parents who had to remain behind in Tibet. It is a story of imprisonment and torture - and of a love that transcends borders. Finally, Goodbye Tibet is the story of a family of kindred spirits formed over the years by all of the protagonists: the children, their mothers, Kelsang and other guides, and the filmmaker herself. A decade of destiny reflects the dreams, hopes and strength of a people, a culture and a religion facing the threat of extinction.
- Danish ethnologist and filmmaker Jens Bjerre travels to the Himalayas.
- Shot in the beautiful Annapurna region of the Himalayas, Trailblazing documents the pioneering spirit of the few women working as guides in the lucrative yet male-dominated adventure tourism sector in Nepal. Their niche are the many female tourists who come to Nepal every year to "trek" the mountainous routes from village to village. 'Trailblazing' profiles the remarkable story of the three determined sisters of the Chhetri family and how they came to operate the first and only female-owned trekking agency in a highly competitive industry. The sisters saw a niche in the market when some women tourists returning from treks told of incidents of inappropriate behaviour from their male guides. To meet the high demand for female guides, the sisters developed a training program to expand capacity for women in the industry, training over 500 women since 1998. This is also a first. 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking is a 'social enterprise', diverting a percentage of the annual income to building capacity for more women in the industry. The film also profiles several young trainees in the program and provides a sense of the social conditions and limited expectations for young Nepali women within Nepali culture.
- A voyage to Nepal, an encounter with the shamans, an exploration of the beyond. This poetic film follows the filmmaker and her dead brother to the foothills of the majestic and mystical Himalayas.
- After their journey Across the Himalayas (documentary waiting to be released) in 2020, Jasper and Rashmita embark upon their another journey to the Himalayas while helping 110 children in education, but this time during the time of crisis.
- Martin Skovmand examines the climate in India. Danmarks Radio (Danish television broadcaster) and Jyllands-Posten (one of the leading Danish newspapers) join forces to produce this travel documentary.
- 2009 - It is just over a year since the Maoists came to power in Nepal. Now the people of this former kingdom wait to see if two armies, until recently bitter enemies, can peacefully become one. Charles Haviland looks at how ten years of war have affected one family... a brother who fights for the National Army - against his two sisters fighting for the enemy in the Maoist Army. They tell the story of siting each other one day on the battlefield.
- Documentary movie about Robert Celinski, runner who wants to win Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon as the first foreigner ever.
- Pemba, a Himalayan Sherpa woman who immigrated to Spain twenty years ago, returns to her homeland in the heart of the Himalayas to discover what remains of the paradise where she grew up.
- Documentary about the Tibetan kingdom Zanskar.