Film premiere: A Kali Temple Inside Out
Bergen International Film Festival is just around the corner, and is scheduled for many exciting screenings. "A Kali Temple Inside Out" is based on anthropologist Kathinka Frøystad’s field work in Kanpur, India, and directed by Dipesh Kharel and Frode Storaas, UiB.
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Bergen International Film Festival
Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) is the largest film festival in Norway. The festival screens a great mix of new feature and documentary films from all over the world. Between Sept 26 and Oct 4 there will be 150 screenings, many of them with great interest for anthropologists.
Film premiere: A Kali Temple Inside Out
Religious boundaries are not necessarily as sharp and antagonistic as the news media lead us to believe. This film shows the everyday life inside and around a Kali temple in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The temple building houses a Kali shrine and a smaller Hanuman shrine, and visitors to the site present offerings in both.
- Read more about the movie on BIFF's home pages
Through a closer presentation of a priest and three devotees, the film shows why this temple is so important to them. Yet they also occasionally visit holy places of other religious traditions, whether to learn or seek additional divine support. The film is thus a silent critique against the obsession with religious conflict in contemporary debates. God is one, the religions are made by humans, as the priest concludes in the film.
- Read more about Frøystad's research project Indian Cosmpolitan Alternatives
Light refreshments and Q&A after the screening. Welcome all!
Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives
"A Kali Temple Inside Out" is based on Kathinka Frøystad’s research in Kanpur, India. She is also project leader of the research project Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives, funded by The Research Council of Norway.
