Cultural opponents of fast food started a successful slow food movement several years back, and if there is ever a parallel slow documentary trend, the fascinating “Manakamana” could be classified as ...

A scene from the documentary "Manakamana." In the mountains of Nepal, there is a cable car that makes the Portland Aerial Tram look like a grade-school science project. Come to think of it, there are ...

William Blake’s oft-quoted observation about finding the world in a grain of sand comes to mind more than once during “Manakamana,” the latest in a string of marvelously original non-fiction features ...

The faces in “Manakamana,” a transporting ethnographic film set in a green sliver of Nepal, stare into the camera, out into space and, perhaps, into the great beyond. The faces are sometimes creased ...

Nepal's first cable car, Manakamana cable car will be closed for 50 days for the maintenance and upgradation. Manakamana Darshan Pvt Ltd has informed that the service will be closed for about 50 days ...

As a follow-up to the International Year of Ecotourism (IYE 2002) and the International Year of Mountains (IYM 2002), scholars and practitioners need to continue to address the challenges inherent in ...

With few credits under their belts, directors Stephanie Spray and Pablo Velez bring us “Manakamana,” a documentary feature that follows a group of Nepalese pilgrims who make their way to the sacred ...

The latest experiment from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab is directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, and produced by "Leviathan's" Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel. By Boyd van Hoeij ...

The Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University doesn't sound like the most obvious source of ground-breaking cinema to rattle senses and confound expectations. Nonetheless, last year's Leviathan – ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Manakamana Darshan Pvt. Ltd. have signed a cooperation agreement to raise awareness on gender-based violence (GBV) and promote community engagement ...