Selb · April 24 - 27, 2025 48. GRENZLAND-FILMTAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Program

By The River

Storyline

Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a place where devout Hindus go to die in hopes of achieving moksha - becoming liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Several so-called ‘death hotels’ exist to accommodate believers who abandon their lives and come here in wait for death - some for as long as 40 years.

About the film/director

Daniel Braga Ulvestadd (Norway, 1993) is a Norwegian director based in Berlin. After working with some of the best in the motion design industry on high-end projects such as the lighting of the Sydney Opera House during Vivid 2017, he is now on a journey to tell human stories with honesty at their core, using the medium of film as his tool.

Credits

Director:
Dan Braga Ulvestad
Camera:
Caleb Ware
Editor:
Andrew Holmes
Sound:
Rubin Henkel
Music:
Dustin Lau
Producer:
Charu Menon
Contact:
Promofest, Spanien
E-mail:
distribucion@promofest.org
  • Australia, India
  • OmeU (Hindi)
  • 2019
  • 25 minutes

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