Four men from a nomadic Tibetan tribe undertake their annual, ritualistic pilgrimage to a sacred salt lake. Salt gathered in this traditional fashion will be sold to provide the economic livelihood of the tribe for the coming year. The journey, necessary for the group's survival, also incorporates a number of rituals necessary for their culture to survive in the modern world.
Luzía visits the eight stages of the 'pilgrimage' that the intellectuals Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risc...
Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...
We get to meet Aslanbek—a teenage shepherd in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. “Aslanbek” is a story exp...
The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest offi...
This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the steep ...
The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were aba...
Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.
Peyangki is a dreamy and solitary eight-year-old monk living in Laya, a Bhutanese village perched hi...
An intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery exclusivel...
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...
Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecti...
An intimate glimpse into the life and world of one of Tibet's most revered teachers: Dilgo Khyentse ...
A beautiful documentary film set around Dzogchen monastery in Tibet. It focuses on Kjabje Dzogchen P...
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
In 1990, when Bischofferode entered the market economy, potash production in East Germany was in thi...
A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repres...