Grasshopper Film has acquired the North American distribution rights to “Rewind & Play,” Alain Gomis’ feature documentary on the late jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. The film is set to screen ...

Kushok Bakula was an exemplary figure who played a significant role in India’s first war against Pakistan in 1947-48, says ...

The documentary’s protagonist, Ittetsu Nemoto, is a former punk-rocker who now counsels people contemplating suicide. A Buddhist monk, he leads groups in exercises meant to approximate how death ...

In his mission to learn about secretive Buddist monks, filmmaker Ahsen Nadeem looks inwardly in his documentary, Crows are White.

One of music’s greatest cult stories, the Monks inspire excited devotion amongst their fans. The fans will therefore eat up a new documentary, “Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback,” and the ...

Police in Thailand have arrested a Buddhist monk in connection with alleged misuse of donations to a HIV/AIDS hospice he set ...

How that story turned out is the subject of “Tashi and the Monk,” a short documentary that is showing for about a month on HBO. In it, Phuntsok and a small staff do the best they can to care ...