Faith Connections

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Faith Connections

2013

1h 55m

Documentary

Biography

Drama

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A Sadhu renounces society and adopts a baby renounced by society.

Bilge Ebiri

Spirituality & Health

Faith Connections does occasionally lose focus. At the same time, the event lends a fascinating, otherworldly quality to what we're seeing onscreen; the images Nalin has gathered are beautiful and evocative.

Mar 24, 2020

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Nicolas Rapold

New York Times

The organic nature and hard-to-fathom scale of Kumbh Mela demand a more systematic strategy.

Sep 11, 2014

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Jake Wilson

Sydney Morning Herald

A slick yet mostly tedious documentary that runs nearly two hours without getting much beyond a tourist's point of view.

Rated: 1.5/5

Apr 4, 2014

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T'Cha Dunlevy

Montreal Gazette

While he does a decent job of bringing us into the trivial daily existence of these different characters during the event, Nalin doesn't quite manage to capture its greater significance.

Rated: 2.5/5

Mar 20, 2015

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space

Though unwieldy and overlong, Faith Connections is nevertheless a remarkably insightful film, full of stunning images and imbued with a strong sense of family and personal growth.

Jun 26, 2014

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All that we are not.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

I have travelled in India, the logistics of making a documentary in India frankly appear very difficult. The other thing that appears daunting is to attend the kumbha Mela. Pan Nailin as done both. This film is far better than its own potted description suggests. It subtley gets to the heart of what personal interactions and relationships mean to us and why One of the best documentaries ever

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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antti p

Every third year tens of millions of Hindus gather to bathe in the a holy river in an event called Kumbh Mela. This document follows a few attendants at the latest controlled chaos of 2013, held in the interconnection of three holy rivers, Ganges, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati, where over 100 million people visited during the 55 days.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Pan Nalin

Director

Pan Nalin

Screenwriter

Raphael Berdugo

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Gaurav Dhingra

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Virginie Lacombe

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Synopsis

A Sadhu renounces society and adopts a baby renounced by society.

Director: Pan Nalin
Producer: Raphael Berdugo, Gaurav Dhingra, Virginie Lacombe, Pan Nalin
Screenwriter: Pan Nalin
Production Co: Jungle Book Entertainment
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 11, 2016
Runtime: 1h 55m