Cobra Gypsies

Name: Cobra Gypsies
Uploaded: 2015
Duration: 53 min

201553 minHD★ 8.5Nature & Wildlife

Editor's Take

Over three months living among the Kalbeliya, a nomadic community of northern India known for music, dance, and a close bond with snakes, filmmaker Raphael Treza builds an immersive portrait of their daily life. The film is participatory and observational, embedded rather than distant, and interested in worldview as much as ritual. Its color and intimacy come from proximity, the access that living alongside a subject allows. It is a vivid ethnographic glimpse of a way of life rarely filmed.

Cobra Gypsies follows filmmaker Raphael Treza as he spends three months living among the Kalbeliya, a nomadic tribe in northern India known for their music, dance, and bond with snakes. The film immerses viewers in the vibrant daily life, traditions, and worldview of this ancient community. It offers a rare and colourful glimpse into a way of living far removed from the modern world. It is a joyful and intimate cultural portrait. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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