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Ce film nous emmène dans le sud de l'Inde, sur les pas d’un duo surprenant et improbable : le professeur Thomas Tursz, célèbre cancérologue français et directeur de l’Institut Gustave-Roussy, à Villejuif, mû par le désir de confronter ses connaissances, y est entraîné par Nella Banfi, son ancienne patiente qui a soigné son cancer grâce à la médecine indienne. Cette histoire est celle d’une femme qui a vécu le parcours éprouvant de la médecine moderne, de la chirurgie, des traitements et du doute. Et qui a finalement choisi une voie différente, mais complémentaire de celle qu'on lui proposait. Et a vaincu la maladie. C’est une démarche étonnante et inattendue : celle d’un éminent docteur au sommet de ses connaissances, qui part à la découverte d’une médecine qui, appremment diffère radicalement de la sienne.
Ni donneur de leçons, ni prescripteur, Mon docteur indien est aussi l’histoire d’un métissage de cultures, d’une mondialisation positive, où des approches différentes se rencontrent pour mieux s’enrichir. Le film explore les ponts qui existent entre la médecine traditionnelle, la science et la médecine moderne, qui s’accordent à repositionner le patient au cœur du processus de guérison pour soigner la personne et non la maladie.
“The General & Me” (93 mn), a film by Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant about the Viet Namese history teacher who made history.
In 1987, Silliphant travelled to Hanoi against her father’s wishes to seek out the reclusive Vietnamese general who beat the French at Dien Bien Phu. Vo Nguyen Giap had been her father's history teacher before both wars. For two decades, she filmed this moving documentary about VietNam and America. Her candid talks with the generals she eventually befriended are priceless and rich with new perspectives and understanding about the conflict. The interviews are mostly in French with english subtitles but the narration is in English
The scene with the architect of the war, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, is unmissable and a telling confrontation with General Westmoreland is sadly reminiscent of today's politics.
Music by Philip Glass
The New York premiere was on November 21, 2014, at the Walter Reade Theaterat Film Society of Lincoln Center in Lincoln Center, Manhattan.
Many reviews were positive. Diana Clarke of the Village Voice called the film "marvelous" and said, "Nicholas Vreeland has a shaved head and a famous last name. The first, obvious and gleaming, advertises his humility and his life as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. The second, subtle and refined, suggests just how hard that humility was to come by."
Godfrey Cheshire on the website RogerEbert.com commented that the film's portrait of Vreeland suggests, "an inner odyssey as extraordinary as any journey across continents, mountain ranges and time zones".
David Noh of Film Journal International called Monk with a Camera an "enthralling and uplifting documentary".
In a review for Variety, Dennis Harvey said the film has an "attractive mix of retro celebrity and spiritual appeal".[10]
Monk With A Camera was shown in Los Angeles starting on December 12, 2014, at the Laemmle Royal, and after that was shown in other cinemas nationwide.
During his years as a monk, Vreeland struggles with his relationship with the camera, finding it almost impossible to give up being a photographer, but worrying that his attachment to photography as an artistic pursuit might compromise his dedication to the spiritual path.
When promised funding for the rebuilding of the monastery falls through because of the 2008 global financial crisis, out of necessity Vreeland's abilities as a photographer become the means to raise the funds needed to complete the building project.
In 2012 the Dalai Lama appoints Vreeland as the abbot of the monastery.
The film uses archival photographs and film sequences, animated sequences, interviews, and numerous on-location segments filmed in India, in New Jersey, in New York City, in Los Angeles, and other major cities worldwide.
At various points in the film, as well as photographs taken by Vreeland himself, we see him looking at photographs of his family taken by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and Cecil Beaton. We also see Vreeland reading Tintin in Tibet, by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé. This was a book he enjoyed as a child; it was his first introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
An exploration of Sex, Love & Monogamy. Featuring Dan Savage, Christopher Ryan & Esther Perel.
This film is a very personal reflection on Ruspoli’s own marriage, divorce, and family history. What he discovers about his very unconventional family, and about the history and psychology of love and marriage leads him to question everything we take for granted about marriage.
Recovering from a very public divorce, independent filmmaker and Italian Prince Tao Ruspoli took to the road to talk to advice experts, artists, relatives, historians, sex workers, philosophers and ordinary people about love, sex & monogamy. That incredible journey became this unmissablefilm.
more on Tao Ruspoli http://blog.taoruspoli.com
More on Giancarlo Canavesio, the film producer, who is an honorary member of the Rencontres. https://mangu.tv
Neurons to Nirvana is a 2013 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Oliver Hockenhull. The film examines the evidence for the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs.
Two versions of the film were released, a director's cut and an educational edition. The director's cut premiered at the Vancouver Film Festival in 2013 and is titled "From Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines"and is 108 minutes. The popular released version is titled: "Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelic Medicines" and is 69 minutes[3]
The film features interviews with Gabor Maté, Dennis McKenna, Rick Doblin, Charles Grob, Jeremy Narby, Stanislav Grof, David Nutt, Julie Holland, David Healy, Michael Mithoefer, David Nichols, Amanda Feilding, Stephen Ross, Ralph Metzner, Gillian Maxwell, Manuel Schoch, Michael Winkelman, William Richards, Kathleen Harrison, Roland Griffiths, Wade Davis, Ingrid Pacey, and Chris Bennett..
More on Giancarlo Canavesio, one the film producer's, who is an honorary member of the Rencontres and who introduced the film with Gabor Mate at a pre rencontre screening.
Conrad Rooks' Siddhartha is the English-language classic based on the best-selling novel by the Nobel Prize winner Herman Hesse featuring astonishing cinematography by the great Sven Nykvist. Siddhartha was filmed entirely on location in Northern India, the holy city of Rishikesh, and the private estates as well as in the palaces of His Highness the Maharajah of Bharatpur. The film is absolutely a ravashing visual experience!
Siddhartha is the disarmingly simple story of a young Brahmin, and his search for a meaningful way of life. This search takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, then self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony with himself that he had been seeking. Siddhartha learns that the secret of life cannot be passed on from one person to another, but must be achieved through inner experience.
The film was introduced by Conrad Rooks' son Alexander and his widow, Janice also participated to the Rencontre. The director was also a great friend of Dado Ruspoli, the father of Tao who's film Monogamish was screened at the 2015 Rencontre.
Rumi - Poet of the Heart is a fifty-five minute documentary that introduces us to the work of Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi. This is accomplished through an intimate dialog with Coleman Barks, his English language translator. The work also features the narration of actress Debra Winger and sensitive observations by scholars such as Huston Smith, Robert Bly, Simone Fattal, Deepak Chopra and the Sufi mystic Sheik Jelaluddin Loras.
Rumi - Poet of the Heart is a devotional work that gently guides viewers through an introduction to the life and spirit of one of America's most widely read poets. Join with Coleman Barks and company to explore Rumi's compelling inner secret world. You will be transformed through their intoxicating spirit of contagious enthusiasm.
