Hungry Minds
General Information
- Author/Creator
- Schwehm, Beatrix, director.
- Language
- Mongolian, Swahili, Bengali.
- Subtitles
- English
- Published
- Germany, 2012.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (87 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00005341
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- This film tells the story of books and people, the love of literature, and how written word makes its way into the most remote corners of this world. It follows three mobile libraries in Kenya, Mongolia and Bangladesh. In the Kenyan bush, close to the unsecured border of Somalia, the librarian Abdullahi Osman and his co-workers bring books on camelback to remote nomadic tribes. In Bangladesh, a country repeatedly visited by flooding, typhoons and tidal waves, the architect Mohammed Rezwan has built a library boat. In Mongolia, children's book writer Jambyn Dashdongog uses the most unconventional transportation to bring the children of the isolated highland plateau two small boxes full of books.
Subjects
- Genre
- Documentary films
Bibliographic Information
- Title Translation
- Hungry Minds
- Note
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
- Library Special Collection
- Verzio Film Festival Submission
Holdings
| Item Type | Current Location | Call Number | Status | Shelving Location | Public Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3658 | Available | - | - |
| Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 3658 (HU_OSA_00005341.mp4) | Available | Access Copy, MP4 format |