by Kriti Film Club
6:30 PM IST, 4th-5th June 2022
Gulmohar Hall,
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
World Environment Day and Us
June 5th is celebrated each year as World Environment Day . The theme for 2022 is Only One Earth, highlighting the need to live sustainably in harmony with nature by bringing transformative changes – through policies and our choices – towards cleaner, greener lifestyles. Join us to mark this day, with a pledge to safeguard our environment and earth.
This World Environment Day weekend, Kriti Film Club is hosting the Delhi premiere’s of two Indian documentaries, that urge us to connect and live in harmony with the ecosystem around us, to treasure and conserve it, as well as to synergise our life choices, our livelihoods and our spiritual being with what is offered by nature and the earth. We hope that Delhi’s audience will not miss a chance to watch these films and make their ecofootprints to start the month of June 2022.
SCHEDULE
Saturday, 4th June 2022, 6.30pm (IST)
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre,
Lodi Road, New Delhi
GARO HILLS NI A'CHIK SONGRANG / VILLAGES OF GARO HILLS
(159 mins | Garo, Atong with English Sub./ 2022)
by Abhishek Udaykumar
About the film: The documentary follows the lives of three farmers across different regions of Garo Hills. It explores their unique livelihoods, domestic lives, relationships, and aspirations. The film's collection of stories forms a document about the villagers' lives for the time to come. It delves into their world without an intention to make a statement about them. The film begins in the monsoon and ends in the winter during the harvest season.
About the filmmaker: Abhishek is a filmmaker, writer and artist from Bangalore, and a graduate of Royal Holloway University of London where he did English and Creative Writing. He writes novels and short stories and paints in different styles. Villages of Garo Hills is his eighth film.
The film will be followed by a conversation with the filmmaker, moderated by Enakshi Ganguly, Co-Founder, HAQ Centre for Child Rights.
SUNDAY, 5th June 2022, 6.30pm (IST)
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre,
Lodi Road, New Delhi
MOVING UPSTREAM: GANGA
(105 minutes | Bengali, Hindi, English with English sub.| 2021)
by Shridhar Sudhir and Siddharth Agarwal
About the film: The 'Moving Upstream: Ganga’ documentary was filmed over 6 months on a 3000 km walk along River Ganga in India by Siddharth Agarwal. This documentary explores the idea of walking, people’s responses to a walking traveller in this fast-paced era, and an evolving relationship with the natural world. Aimed at an urban audience that is largely disconnected from the realities of rural India, the film provides an unfiltered view into the thoughts and lives of people living next to the river.
About the filmmakers: Shridhar Sudhir is a graduate of M.Des (Film and Video Communication) at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad before which he pursued a B.F.A. (Visual Communication) course from College of Art, New Delhi. After finishing his Masters, he has been making independent films and freelancing throughout the country. He worked in Mumbai for a year, where he developed feature film stories and then briefly assisted Nandita Das, after which he shifted to the mountains in Himachal Pradesh and founded his studio by the name of Studio Buddhijeev. Siddharth Agarwal has walked over 6000sf kilometres across India, especially along rivers, trying to document and bring stories of marginalised people and the environment into the mainstream. His organisation Veditum India Foundation (@veditum) hosts some of his work, along with efforts towards environmental research, documentation and accountability initiatives. The documentary, 'Moving Upstream: Ganga' is Siddharth's brainchild, developed and created by him.
Both the films will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, who are coming from Bangalore and Kolkata respectively for this event.
ABOUT THE KRITI FILM CLUB: This is an educational initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti team'. We screen and share documentary films on development, environment, and socially relevant issues, in an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an equitous, just, and peaceful world. We also curate issue-based film festivals and organise documentary film shows in neighbourhoods, communities, schools, colleges, or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club has been screening documentaries regularly and independently (without any funding) in Delhi NCR since 2000 and in Mumbai since 2019, to promote 'thought-provoking cinema'. Since March 2020, we have also been screening online on Doculive, a virtual theatre space created specially for extending the reach of films to wider audiences.
On the sidelines: A Gestures stall of eco-friendly and handmade products from across India, supporting community livelihoods.
Open for All/ Disabled and senior citizen friendly venue
Save a seat: 098106 66692/ space.kriti@gmail.com
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