Winner of the People's Choice Award at the 2000 Banff Mountain Film Festival. A Higher Calling tells the story of 6 friends who travel to Nepal to fly cross country on their paragliders, experiencing the culture and the people by direct immersion upon each landing. The story begins far from Nepal however, skiing remote peaks in Alaska, where the idea to fly is born.
The film is based on Gennady Shpalikov’s most intimate story, “The Wharf”. Young Katya, who lives in a small provincial town, is dreaming of a prince charming.
A group of actors is shooting a film in Aguas Buenas, based on the legend of a magician. There, they become infected with the honesty syndrome, which unleashes a number of hidden secrets to come to light.
Om lives in Bombay, India, in a small apartment with mother and sister. Om and his mother are of very conservative taste, when it comes to wearing clothes, however, the sister is not.
