Faith Connections

A personal, yet profoundly universal, cinematic essay that interweaves … disparate tales into a meditative, entertaining and provocative tapestry.
-- Saibal Chatterjee, BBC

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Faith Connections

Filmmaker Pan Nalin travels to the Kumbh Mela, one of the world's most extraordinary religious events. There, he encounters remarkable men of mind and meditation, some facing an inextricable dilemma: to embrace the world or to renounce it. FAITH CONNECTIONS explores such diverse and deeply moving stories such as those of a young runaway kid; a Sadhu; a mother desperately looking for her lost son; a yogi who is raising an abandoned baby; and an ascetic who keeps his calm by smoking cannabis, all connected by one faith against the spectacular display of devotion.
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
117
Language
Hindi
Director
Pan Nalin
FEATURED REVIEW
Simon Foster, Screen Space

The Kumbh Mela is the largest socio-religious gathering on the planet, an event that sees 100 million Hindu pilgrims travel to the junction of three spiritual waterways in Allahabad, India. Pan Nalin (Samsara, 2001) presents an epic yet intimate account of lives that both define and are influenced ...

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