Feminist and decolonial naturecultures: a film festival (23rd-28th August) and Filmmaker conversation (26th August) to inspire Degrowth imaginaries

Kriti Film Club and WEGO invite you for a mini-online film festival and filmmaker conversation at the 8th International Degrowth Conference, “Caring Communities for Radical Change” 

The physical conference is happening at The Hague in Netherlands.

The films have been selected from the previously held Rising Gardens Film Festival 2021 curated by Reena Mohan and organised by Sangat and Kriti Film Club.

Title: Feminist and decolonial naturecultures: a film festival to inspire Degrowth imaginaries. (23rd-28th August 2021/ online)

Filmmaker discussion: 26th August (6-7.30 pm IST/ online)

Moderator: Aanchal Kapur (Kriti Film Club, co-organiser, Rising Gardens Film Festival)

Panelists: 

  • Colleen Cooley (Water Flows Together) 
  • Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena (I Cannot Give You My Forest & Candles in the Wind) 
  • Manca Filak (Tobacco Memories)
  • Vandana Menon (Thengapalli).

The selection of films aim to inspire Degrowth imaginaries which attend to feminist and decolonial ideas, practices and resistance, while relating closely to naturecultural realities in different ways and contexts.

Theme 1: Exploring alternative value systems in more-than-human relations 

“The Shepherdess of the Glaciers” – By Stanzin Dorjai and Christiane Mordelet (74:00) - India/France, 2016  

“Glow Worm In A Jungle” – By Ramana Dumpala (12:00) - India, 2018  

“Water Flows Together” – By Palmer Morse, Taylor Graham, Matt Mikkelsen (11:00) - USA, 2020 

“I Cannot Give You My Forest” - By Nandan Saxena, Kavita Bahl (45:00) - India, 2015 

Theme 2: Everyday struggles against dominant food and agricultural systems   

“AƱay Kachi (Thank you salt): the salt workers of the Peruvian Andes” – By Cristobal Ruiz, Thomas Silcock, Toto Thots (12:51) - Canada, 2020

“Strength in Diversity, Stress Tolerant Crops of Nagaland” – By Chentei Lam Khiamniungan Naga – (14:28) - India, 2018 

“Tobacco Memories” – By Manca Filak – (31:00) - Bulgaria, 2020 

Theme 3: Stories of Resistance 

“Thengapalli” – By Vandana Menon, Vivek Sangwan, Debashish Nandi - (08:46) - India, 2020  

“Two steps forward” - By Gulnar Tabassum (27:00) - Pakistan, 2009  

“Candles in the wind” – By Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena – (54:00) - India, 2013 

Register here to catch the films and conversation. 

A minimum registration fee of Euro5 is charged by the conference organisers and gives you access to the three day conference entirely.

For queries please write to Kriti Film Club on space.kriti@gmail.com

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