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Embassy of India

Alpine Tour Service

Director: Fulvio Mariani & Mario Casella / Swiss
Audio: English
Subtitles: Japanese
52 min.
www.siachen.ch

The history and day-to-day life of the soldiers involved the world’s highest, less
known and most absurd war. This conflict began 20 years ago, in 1984, and
was a battle for the control over the Siachen glacier (5000 – 7500 m, i.e. 16,400
– 24,600 ft) located at the extreme northern edge of the Indian-Pakistan border.

This film is about a war that not even the most cynical among strategists could
have imagined!

We see twenty years of conflict simply to maintain sovereignty over a few
hundred square kilometres of ice and rock lost somewhere in the middle of the
Himalaya. There are few photographs of this war and, up until now, no camera
had ever filmed its location or its ill-fated actors on either opposing sides. In
2004, for the first time, a filming crew was allowed to film the advanced posts
of both armies.

This documentary hopes to bring forth a powerful message of peace and to
expose the futility of arguments advanced by belligerent countries when it
comes to justifying war.

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

(ENVIRONMENT)
* Meltdown
* Leave Nothing but Footprints
* Turf Wars
* Timber to Tibet
(ADVENTURE)
* Riding Solo To The Top Of The
World
* A Higher Calling
* Into the Thunder Dragon
* Farther than the Eye Can See
* Trio for One
* Fatal Game
(POLITICS / HUMAN RIGHTS)
* Thin ice
* Chulo, Choli ra Banduk - a stove,
a blouse and a gun
* Better to Have Been Killed
* The Forbidden Team
* Jashn-e-azadhi (How We
Celebrate Freedom)
* Siachen: A war for Ice
* Tibetan Refugees: A Struggle
Beyond Generations
(POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT)
* Journey of a Red Fridge
* Hami kunako maanche –
We corner people
* A Bridge over the Himalayas
* Yi khel gi kawa
(The Price of a Letter)
* Tingvong: a Lepcha village in
Sikkim
(CULTURE)
* Angry Monk
* Miss Tibet
* Closer than Tibet
* Bhedako Oon Jasto...in search
of a song...

* A man called nomad
* Call it Karma
* Daughters of Wisdom
* Bhutan - Taking the Middle Path
to Happiness