Hungry Minds (2012)
Overview
Α Bengalese architect builds library boats that can bring books to people even during the monsoon season. Α Mongolian author packs two boxes full of books each summer to provide reading material to children in remote areas. Α Kenyan librarian leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their long journeys. This film about the fascinating world of mobile libraries tells of unusual means of transportation and adventurous travel, of different cultures and lifestyles, of the worries, aspirations and dreams of people in these areas – of books that change lives – and of book lovers, who take on unbelievable challenges in order to provide people in the remotest areas of the world with reading material. A film about the love of literature and the respect for knowledge that accepts no boundaries.
What is Hungry Minds about?
Α Bengalese architect builds library boats that can bring books to people even during the monsoon season. Α Mongolian author packs two boxes full of books each summer to provide reading material to children in remote areas. Α Kenyan librarian leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their long journeys. This film about the fascinating world of mobile libraries tells of unusual means of transportation and adventurous travel, of different cultures and lifestyles, of the worries, aspirations and dreams of people in these areas – of books that change lives – and of book lovers, who take on unbelievable challenges in order to provide people in the remotest areas of the world with reading material. A film about the love of literature and the respect for knowledge that accepts no boundaries. Hungry Minds is a Documentary movie, released on 2012-03-14, runtime 87 minutes.
Is Hungry Minds worth watching?
There are not enough ratings yet to summarize how viewers feel about Hungry Minds.
Where can I watch Hungry Minds?
Movie World lists online streaming sources and links to external sources for Hungry Minds on this page. Availability depends on the sources configured by the site.
Directed by
Beatrix Schwehm
More like this
- A City at Chandigarh (1966)
- Ziraldo - Lifelong work of art crying for help (2021)
- Palna's Daughters (2007)
- Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants (2026)
- Kekoa (2020)
- Flannery (2019)
- Chihuly Short Cuts III (2014)
- Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance (2021)
- The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004)
- Lenz Elegy (2015)
Sources
Details and the 7.0/10 rating from Hungry Minds on TMDB, also on IMDb. Back to Movie World.