Hippie Masala
Switzerland, January 2006
FILM,
Documentary,
93 min.
- directed by
- Ulrich Grossenbacher, Damaris Lüthi
- Written by
- Damaris Lüthi
- Status
- In distribution
From the mid-1960s onwards thousands of western hippies and flower children moved to India in search of an alternative lifestyle, spiritual enlightenment and drug experimentation. Most returned after a few months or years, but some stayed forever. Filmmaker Grossenbacher meets some of these lifers, like Cesare, a cave-dwelling Yogi, still striving for spiritual liberation. Swiss Hanspeter runs a small farm in the Himalayas, but judging by the hash pipe permanently wedged between his lips, he is no traditionalist. Then there are the South African twins who get through the day with booze and by sewing hippie clothes for both the old and new generation of Goa freaks.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2006
- Original Version
- English, Swiss-German (french/german subtitles), colour, 35mm, 93 min.
- Production
- Fair&Ugly Filmproduktion GmbH
- Producer
- directed by
- Ulrich Grossenbacher, Damaris Lüthi
- Written by
- Damaris Lüthi
- Cinematography
- Ulrich Grossenbacher
- Editing
- Maya Schmid
- Music
- Matthias Gmünder, Sahlil Shankar
- Location Sound Mix
- Balthasar Jucker, Avesh Serge Valantin
- Lighting Design
- Ulrich Grossenbacher
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Fair&Ugly Filmproduktion GmbH
Worldwide Distribution
- Canada
- Seventh Art Releasing Distribution
- Germany
- Kool Filmdistribution Distribution
- Switzerland
- Look Now! Distribution
Festivals
(a selection)
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Miami International Film Festival
28.02.2008 - 09.03.2008 -
Astra Film Festival Sibiu
20.10.2007 - 28.10.2007 -
Woodstock Film Festival 2007
10.10.2007 - 14.10.2007 -
Flahertiana International Documentary Film Festival
07.09.2007 - 13.09.2007 -
Tel Aviv, 9th doc aviv The Tel-Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
15.03.2007 - 24.03.2007 -
Duisburg, Duisburger Filmwoche / vhs
06.11.2006 - 12.11.2006 -
Leipzig, 49. Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
30.10.2006 - 05.11.2006 -
World Film Festival of Bangkok
13.10.2006 - 22.10.2006 -
2nd DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival New Zealand
07.09.2006 - 29.10.2006 -
Locarno, 59. Festival internazionale del film Locarno
02.08.2006 - 12.08.2006
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Munich, 21. Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
03.05.2006 - 11.05.2006 -
Kiev, 2nd Contact Ukrainian International Documentary Film Festival
08.04.2006 - 14.04.2006 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
16.01.2006 - 22.01.2006