An entertaining and insightful look at the spiritual teachings, customs and daily lives of families of different faiths.
Viewers follow Tevya Heller on a delightful journey as he experiences a vast array of traditions and social activities with the help of enthusiastic guides who discuss what it means to have faith – and how to have a little fun along the way!
Nomadism is the oldest way of life. It wasn’t until about 11,000 years ago, with the introduction of farming and the domestication of wild animals, that human beings started to settle. And yet, in spite of this, nomadism still exists today and will certainly continue to exist in future since large parts of the Earth’s surface cannot be used for anything other than nomadic herding.
My Son the Pornographer is a love story about the relationship between a father and a son. We follow Art, a man raised with conservative moral values, as he visits his son Kole who works as a writer and actor in the pornography business in Prague.
In the federal state of Jharkhand, around 1,200,000 people live in the middle of one of India’s biggest coal mining areas, but most of them do not benefit from the rich coal reserves. India needs to grow faster, hence the huge demand for coals. Mining from this area has to be cheaper to meet growing demands for steel production, which is a thriving industry in the adjacent areas of this region. Not only that, the land is polluted, the soil, the water and the air are now contaminated in an area that was previously rich in woodlands. Now, the owners and residents of this land want what is due to them.
Tattoos are everywhere. It seems like everyone wants one. But what’s really fascinating is the anticipation and transgression that having a tattoo still represents and the feelings and fear behind having your first one.
From the producer of Channel 4’s ‘My Tattoo Addiction’, comes a new and intimate documentary that meets people about to have their first tattoo. We hear their reasons behind it, from ink-crossed lovers, to BFFs, mid-life crisis and superfans. We’ll follow them to the studio and share their experience, then we’ll be with them as they reveal their creation to the world.
My Bare Lady is a must-see reality series in which we find out if Porn Stars can become classical actresses in just three weeks. Guided by mentor and British theatre legend Christopher Biggins, four female adult stars, selected after a casting call and audition, are challenged to go from sex to Shakespeare. It’s a fish out of water story as they’re put through a traditional British theatre school and thrust on stage in London’s famous West End to perform a classical acting showcase of the greats. They will be living together and learning together as they take on the biggest challenge of their lives. Can they pull it off? My Bare Lady will reveal all!
Muneeza Sheikh wears her faith on her sleeve – if she’s wearing sleeves, that is. And that’s a problem.
Filmed over 5 years, Muneeza in the Middle is the story of a 2nd generation Muslim trying to reconcile her religious values with her cultural and western values. Her religion urges modesty in all facets of life, but she’s a confident, beautiful, outspoken and successful lawyer who also turns heads with her piercings, fitted clothing, and cosmetic enhancements.
Muneeza is a devout worshiper and bound to challenge common stereotypes about Muslims.
Within a culture long revered for spirituality and a high value placed on inner beauty, a maverick Tibetan promoter engages in a most un-Tibetan undertaking: a western-style beauty pageant. Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile follows Tenzin Khecheo, a Tibetan-American teenager from Minnesota as she travels to the Indian Himalayas to compete in this “beauty pageant with a difference.”
Pageant founder Lobsang Wangyal seeks to fill a void within the Tibetan exile community by bringing a bit of glamour into his corner of the world. Complete with catwalks and evening gowns, he sees his pageant as an opportunity for exiled Tibetan women to both immerse themselves in Tibetan culture and to add their voices to global fight for a free Tibet by using the pageant as a unlikely political platform.
Love. Marriage. & Sex In The City explores three distinct Asian cultures, India, Japan and Singapore, through the institution of marriage.