In a Balinese village, families go to great trouble and expense for their extravagant cremation ceremony. They provide special foods to mourners and prepare a bounty of offerings for the deceased, from gifts of money to symbolic baskets. The atmosphere is almost festive as a shadow puppet show is performed for the entertainment of the deceased, inheritances are distributed, and musical processions of mourners walk the streets. Dead family members seem almost present as their bones are uncovered, washed, and arranged for cremation with accompanying prayer rites. During the cremation, the village is filled with smoke from enormous burning pyres shaped like bulls, as the souls of the dead are cleansed of impurity and then sent out to sea so that they may continue their journey to heaven. Shot in 16mm, the film documents and explains the intricacies of these funeral rites and Balinese-Hindu beliefs about death.

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General
Container:	DVD Video
Runtime:	1h 3mn
Size:	54.0 KiB
Video
Codec:	MPEG-2
Resolution:	720x480 ~> 720x540
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	29.970 fps
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Audio
English 2.0ch AC-3

https://nitro.download/view/D2B93B0BB11250C/Balinese_Requiem.rar

Language(s):Indonesian,English
Subtitles:English

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