ECO REELS 2025 - The Climate Charche edition
10:15 am – 11:30 am: Theme - The Changing Planet
BURNING MOUNTAINS
(3:21 mins/ English/ Animation/ 2024)
Prod. Waste Warriors
This film explores the breath-taking biodiversity of the Himalayan region, now under threat from human activities like open waste burning. What seems like a simple waste solution unleashes devastating toxins, including dioxins and furans that harm both the environment and human health. Smoke from burning waste releases black carbon, which accelerates glacial melting and contributes to global climate change.
SAMAYADA HARIVU | Flow of Time
(8 mins/ Kannada, English with English subtitles/ Documentary)
Dir. Shruti Parthasarathy & Vikash Tiwari/ Prod. Charles Correa Foundation
This film delves into the lived experiences of Noor Mary and Prasad, inhabitants residing on opposite sides of the Historic Begur Lake; and observes the complexities surrounding the concept of reclamation and its relevance today. The contrast between the two distinct voices and the communities they represent emerge.
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GUTTER KI MACHHLI
(9:55 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2024/ Animation, Documentary)
Dir. Natasha Sharma/ Prod. Global Resilience Partnership & Community Design Agency
This animation weaves together the voices of the children, youth and women of a rehabilitation and resettlement colony in Govandi, Mumbai through art and poetry to vocalise, localise and visualise their experiences of climate change in their poorly built homes and neighbourhood. #children #youth #women
SAKYAD
(10 mins/ Non-Verbal/ 2024/ Experimental Documentary)
Dir. Prod. Shilpika Bordoloi
This film is about the ecological body of Ladakh in relation to the human body. Both linked to change, transitions, systems within systems. Set in the current socio- political backdrop of climate crisis and action - this film is meant as an experience in the genre of non-narrative documentary filmmaking.
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POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Organised by Kriti Film Club & Bengaluru Sustainability Forum
in collaboration with Gandhi Bhavan
10:00 am – 10:15 am: Welcome and Opening10:15 am – 11:30 am: Theme - The Changing Planet
BURNING MOUNTAINS
Prod. Waste Warriors
This film explores the breath-taking biodiversity of the Himalayan region, now under threat from human activities like open waste burning. What seems like a simple waste solution unleashes devastating toxins, including dioxins and furans that harm both the environment and human health. Smoke from burning waste releases black carbon, which accelerates glacial melting and contributes to global climate change.
SAMAYADA HARIVU | Flow of Time
Dir. Shruti Parthasarathy & Vikash Tiwari/ Prod. Charles Correa Foundation
This film delves into the lived experiences of Noor Mary and Prasad, inhabitants residing on opposite sides of the Historic Begur Lake; and observes the complexities surrounding the concept of reclamation and its relevance today. The contrast between the two distinct voices and the communities they represent emerge.
Watch Trailer
GUTTER KI MACHHLI
Dir. Natasha Sharma/ Prod. Global Resilience Partnership & Community Design Agency
This animation weaves together the voices of the children, youth and women of a rehabilitation and resettlement colony in Govandi, Mumbai through art and poetry to vocalise, localise and visualise their experiences of climate change in their poorly built homes and neighbourhood. #children #youth #women
SAKYAD
Dir. Prod. Shilpika Bordoloi
This film is about the ecological body of Ladakh in relation to the human body. Both linked to change, transitions, systems within systems. Set in the current socio- political backdrop of climate crisis and action - this film is meant as an experience in the genre of non-narrative documentary filmmaking.
Watch Trailer
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Facilitator: Hansika Singh Filmmakers: Shilpika Bordoloi, Shruti Parthasarathy
Discussant: Bharath Natraj
11:30 am – 11:45 am: Tea break
11:45 am - 1:15 pm: Theme - Flora, Fauna and Habitats
THE MUSHROOM KEEPERS
Dir. Naveed Mulki
This film explores the deep connections between fungi and the Khasi and Garo communities of Meghalaya, India. It delves into how fungi shape spiritual and cultural worldviews, revealing the intertwined loss of biodiversity and ancestral knowledge as old-growth forests diminish. Through intimate conversations with community elders, the film serves as both a reflection on cultural erosion and a call to action.
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COLONIES IN CONFLICT
Dir. Rajani Mani
This film examines the state of wild bees in a fast-developing Indian landscape. Human action is causing pollinator declines all over the world, spelling disaster to nutritional security and biodiversity of our ecosystems.
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POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Filmmakers: Prithvi Kini, Fungi Foundation and Rajani Mani
Discussant: Ulhas Anand
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: Lunch Break
2:15 pm – 4:00 pm: Theme - Nature, People and Power
WADE
Dir. Upamanyu Bhattacharyya & Kalp Sanghvi
In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unlivable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.
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GOMALA - COMMONS UNDER THREAT
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Dir. Prastuti Kashyap & Atheng Zeme
Semi-arid grassland and savannas being used as grazing common land by local communities are known as Gomalas in Bagepalli and large parts of northern Karnataka. Today, they are under severe threat due to their diversion for developmental activities, encroachment by real estate mafia and industrial farmers, illegal mines and quarrying. The disappearance of Gomalas will not only impact the poor farmers and landless local communities but also ecological and climate change.
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BHED CHAL
Dir. Ankit Pogula
In a semi-arid region of North Karnataka, two kurbā (nomadic) shepherds are determined to not be the last in line of their lineage. As they walk through India's oldest landscapes bridging worlds which know less of each other, Herd Walk is an exploration of this passionate quest - why should the sheep keep walking?
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POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION
Discussant: Mahesh Bhat, Abhisheka Krishnagopal
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