That’s not to say that this film, directed by Maren R. Monsen and Nicole Newnham, is irrepressibly rosy. It spends three years tracking four children, and the stories don’t all end happily. Of course, ...
She had done so in her home in the "bustees" -- the dense Calcutta slums -- while Rosalie Giffoniello and I sat on two plastic chairs, the only chairs in the room. The room was no more than eight feet ...
This documentary - edited from the rushes of the longer Phantom India - shows the various stations of life and death in Calcutta, India. From the wealthy aristocrats to the lepers and untouchables, ...
As the Ganges River's journey nears an end, it passes through Calcutta, one of India's great cities. Renowned for its slums, militancy and red... Calcutta's Industrial Ambitions Clash with Tradition ...
Dawn breaks over the railway tracks slicing through a Calcutta slum. In the distance you hear the whistle of a local passenger train chugging sluggishly along. Zoom in to a silhouette of a lean, lanky ...