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Bom (2011)

Name: Bom
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-05-21T12:15:20+02:00

Documentary | 117 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 117 minuten

Alternative title: One Day Ahead of Democracy

Country: Japan / United States / India / Netherlands

Directed by: Amlan Datta

IMDb score: 8,2 (104)

Releasedate: 9 November 2012

Bom plot

In “Bom”, director Amlan Datta visits his adoptive family several times in Malana, a remote mountain village near the Tibetan border. In the past, the community functioned flawlessly thanks to divine justice and its own village council that could only make decisions by unanimity. No one was left out by a majority or the right of the fittest. But since the democratic system of the republic of India was put in place, trust has given way to suspicion and deceit. The traditional cultivation of cannabis has been banned by the state and the pastures of the goat herds have to make way for a dam. Tourism and the cultivation of peas are presented by outsiders as alternative sources of income, but that is not very realistic given the location and yield...