Samsara (2011)

Director: Ron Fricke Producer: Mark Magidson Genre: Documentary / World Cinema Country: United States Language: English / None A journey of the soul – beautiful, haunting, and mystical. Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life.” Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, Samsara transform viewers through powerful images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score. The film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet. Expanding on the themes developed in Baraka (1992) and Chronos (1985), Samsara explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man’s spirituality and the human experience. Neither a traditional documentary nor a travelogue, Samsara takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation.