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21) Funeral season
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We pray to our ancestors but we do not worship them. You, you need an intermediary, the priest. But for us, our intermediary is the ancestor who is sitting next to God," says Poundé, the old Cameroonian ethnologist, to the young Jewish director from Canada. And with this conclusive statement, everything becomes clear: the funerals in memory of "the dead who are not dead" organized several days or even years following the burial, the chants, brass...
22) The gilded ones
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by the culture of West Africa, a feminist fantasy debut traces the experiences of an intuitive girl who is invited to leave her discriminatory village to join the emperor's army of near-immortal women warriors.
23) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin', he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
27) Give Me Liberty
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Medical transport driver Vic is late, but it’s not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and émigré friends to a funeral. The new route uproots his scheduled clients, particularly Tracy (Lauren “Lolo” Spencer in a breakout performance), a vibrant young woman with ALS. As the day goes from hectic to off-the-rails, their collective ride becomes a hilarious, compassionate, and intersectional...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
32) The dead bird
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One day, the children find a bird lying on its side with its eyes closed and no heartbeat. They are very sorry, so they decide to say good-bye. In the park, they dig a hole for the bird and cover it with warm sweet-ferns and flowers. Finally, they sing sweet songs to send the little bird on its way.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms.
36) Sons of Shiva
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the initial taking of the Sacred Thread through gradually intensifying action to a culmination in a variety of ascetic and self denying practices.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.
38) Samsara
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, it explores the wonders of the world from sacred grounds to industrial sites, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man's spirituality and the human experience. Photographed entirely in 70mm and transferred to 4K digital projection format, its mesmerizing images of unprecedented clarity illuminate the links between humanity...
Series
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
Tatsuo, a gangster who's ready to retire, and Seiji, his best friend and a police detective, take a road trip to attend the funeral of Fumiko, Seiji's wife and Tatsuo's lover. The trip is anything but smooth as the men's occupational and personal differences get in the way.
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