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DEATH IN THE CITY

By Balaka GHOSH

SORRY STATE OF MIND PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2022

Funeral pyres burning non-stop for more than three millennia, the sacred city of Varanasi on the holy Ganga, India’s river of life is, for Hindus, the dream destination for death and the most pressured crematorium in the world: its relationship with death at once auspicious, spiritual, and industrial

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Adelaide Film Festival 2022

Premiere

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA, INDIA
- Languages
- HINDI
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 72 mn
- Director(s)
- Balaka GHOSH
- Producer(s)
- Kumud RANJAN (NEXT STORY COMMUNICATION PVT. LTD.), Maxine WILLIAMSON (SORRY STATE OF MIND PRODUCTIONS), Defrim ISAI (SORRY STATE OF MIND PRODUCTIONS), Steve JAGGI (THE STEVE JAGGI COMPANY)
- Synopsis
- A film in three movements. Spiritual, metaphysical, experiential.
  
  Anyone with an interest in India and its spirituality will find rich material in this documentary about Varanesi, holy city on the Ganges. Many believe that if one dies here and is given the rites of cremation in its waters, Lord Shiva will release you from the karmic wheel of reincarnation. This has generated a local industry based on death, with wood bearers, death photographers, prostitutes, and an assortment of holy men well supplied with gunja. The fascinating aspect of this Indian-Australian co-production is the acceptance of death, stripped of the fear that all too often attends it.

DEATH IN THE CITY

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