The faces in “Manakamana,” a transporting ethnographic film set in a green sliver of Nepal, stare into the camera, out into space and, perhaps, into the great beyond. The faces are sometimes creased ...

Worshippers are to be barred from entering the popular Manakamana Temple in Gorkha from coming Friday. A decision was made to prohibit the entrance into the temple considering the heightened risk of ...

As a follow-up to the International Year of Ecotourism (IYE 2002) and the International Year of Mountains (IYM 2002), scholars and practitioners need to continue to address the challenges inherent in ...

With few credits under their belts, directors Stephanie Spray and Pablo Velez bring us “Manakamana,” a documentary feature that follows a group of Nepalese pilgrims who make their way to the sacred ...

Two religious pilgrims take the cable car to the "Manakamana" temple in Nepal. (Courtesy) When anthropology is done right, it looks something like “Manakamana.” Filmmaker Pacho Velez and longtime ...

Cultural opponents of fast food started a successful slow food movement several years back, and if there is ever a parallel slow documentary trend, the fascinating “Manakamana” could be classified as ...

Is it a Zen meditation or a travel documentary? An ethnological treatise or an essay on changing religious practices? Is it about landscapes or the people who pass through them? Or is it just a ...

A Nepalese cable car is a window on to the world in this one-of-a-kind ethnographic documentary. Overseen by director Lucien Castaing-Taylor (“Sweetgrass,” “Leviathan”), the Sensory Ethnography Lab ...

The Manakamana Cable Car, Nepal's first passenger cable car linking Chitwan's Cheres station with the famed Manakamana temple in Gorkha, resumed operations today after a one-week closure. The service ...