• Director(s):

    MALEGUE (FREDERIC)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

During the Kumbh Mela, a huge religious event, many people come to disappear, lost or abandoned. An India far away from classical pictures of a colored and spiritual land. This documentary features a different face of India, far removed from the classic images of a highly coloured and spiritual land.

Part of these vanishing are temporary: lacking any means of communication, many pilgrims coming to bathe themselves in the Ganges get lost in the crowd and try for days, say weeks, to get in reach of their families in order to get back home. Part of these vanishing are voluntary: mostly composed of old women and newborns, entire groups of beings are purposely abandoned by their families on the stony stairs leading to the river banks.