Bilal can see but his parents cannot. He is only three years old and hardly understands what blindness is. Bilal also has a little brother, Hamza. And inside a tiny dark and dank room together they live in a curious game of seeing and not seeing. Neighbors and relatives surround them. The film tells this unusual story by observing the little boy over a year by capturing rare moments of sharing love, fun, cruelty and hope... the wonder world of Bilal.
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In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed east to India in search of enlightenment. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought in the West was the reason for their migration. India's holy men saw it as a search for spirituality. Most moved back to their home countries after a few months or years while others stayed for good. Hippie Masala is a portrait of Western ex-patriates: Robert from Holland, a gifted painter, lives with jos wife and young children. Meera, a hermit, seeks enlightenment on her own, while Cesare, an Italian expatriate, strives for spiritual liberation through back-breaking yoga. Hanspeter, a man originally from Switzerland, runs a small farm in the Himalayas. Erica and Gillian, South African twins, sew hippie handicrafts by day and party tirelessly at night...
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lived most of his life in a poor section of Mumbai, until he left his body on September 8, 1981. Nisargadatta Maharaj was a teacher extraordinary, absorbed in the Absolute, his teaching have touched the world and spiritual seekers for decades. Maharaj, as his disciples called him, had many devotees, however one of his closest was Jozef Nauwelaerts of Belgium. Before his passing Jozef and Christiana Braes left to the world a film, which takes the viewer on a journey through Mumbai and the area of Maharaj's house, along with a 35 minute question and answer session.
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