Commendation of the INTERFILM Jury, Mannheim 1988

The film awakens a willingness to engage with the culture of India. Despite the film's fascination with the strange and beyond all the social tensions of a "third world country", it preserves respect and human dignity in its approach. In its honest way of reflecting on what it sees, the film enables a willingness to observe without claiming that the West's way of seeing is the standard for the joy of life and the future of a common world. We consider the restraint exercised in the film to be exemplary for approaching realities that are not readily accessible to us.