Movies: Funeral ceremony

Meeting after many years, a makeup artist and her grandmother revisit tensions from an old family feud that still hangs heavy between them....

A man is struggling to keep his beloved bull from being used as sacrifice for his dead wife's funeral rites....

THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of presen...

Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, India's most holy city. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentar...

A young Ojibwe photographer stubbornly takes on the responsibility of keeping a sacred fire alive for four consecutive days and nights in mourning of his father. His father's spirit tries to reach him from the other side....

In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman....

The funeral of assassinated Yugoslavian king....

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Shows the preparation of a deceased man before his funeral....

After his Tokyo farewell ceremony, Yamamoto's ashes were sent to Kyoto on March 9. Many friends and citizens gathered at his home in Uji. On the 15th a worker-farmer funeral was held at the Sanjo YMCA. Prokino's Kyoto Branch shot these five days of a...