Film festival on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
MONDAY, 3rd June 2024
The curation for this day is primarily in hindi language and targetted for community based audience. All films will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers | experts.
10:00 am : Registration
10:30 am – 12:30 pm |Theme - Urban Environment: Challenges & Choices
UDHAMPUR: THE CITY OF GODDESS (7:44 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2024/ Docu)
Dir. Rajshi R. Chauhan
This short film explores the city of Udhampur, its people and the sacred bond it shares with its rivers and mountains. Rapid urbanisation has taken its toll on the river Devika, threatening its purity and vitality. The local people here remain steadfast in their commitment to protecting their beloved river. Watch Trailer
SONGS OF RESISTANCE: AAREY (10 mins/ Marathi, Hindi with English subtitles/ 2024/ Docu)
Dir. Vivek Sangwan and Srishti Chowdhary | Prod. Sanjay Barnela
Warli Adivasis including Prakash Bhoir and the hip-hop crew Swadeshi unite in 'The Warli Revolt' to resist tree felling in Aarey forest (Mumbai) for a metro car shed. Resisting powerful forces, their music and activism persist, challenging mainstream development narratives and advocating for environmental justice and Adivasi rights.
A FIGHT TO SAVE ORANS (6:19 mins / Hindi with English subtitles/ 2023 / Docu)
Dir. Prod. Urja
Solar and wind energy outfits are steadily encroaching upon Rajasthan’s orans – sacred groves set in grasslands which are mis-categorised as ‘wastelands’ in government records. Their rapidly growing presence is drastically changing the ecology and livelihoods. Watch Trailer
CITY MOVES (18 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2023 / Docu)
Dir. Prod. Asna Jamal, Avikal
This film looks at air pollution through the lens of mobility justice. It explores NMT (Non-Motorised Transport) as the sustainable solution for tackling air pollution in Delhi, a major cause of which is the transport sector. Through two stories of cycling and walking within the city, the film documents how access to the city is embedded in the segregated spatial reality of Delhi. Watch Trailer
BOMBAY HAS NO MORE CROCODILES! (37:18 mins/ English, Hindi with Engl.subs/ 2023/ Docu)
Dir. Devraj, Sakshi, Sparsh, Srinjoy | Prod. Aparijit Production (filmmakers attending)
This film is an anthology that explores the idiosyncratic development of urban Bombay, and its symptomatic relationship with the ecological. It looks at the different ways in which people have and continue to access the city; issues of housing, livelihood, and the ecosystem that powers the city and how it's being depleted by elements of capitalism. Watch Trailer
12:30 pm – 1:15 pm | Theme - Climate Crisis and People
OUR GADHERA | STORY OF A MOUNTAIN STREAM (8:03 mins/ Non-verbal/ 2023/ Experimental)
Dir. Paras, Nature on Duty
This debut film portrays the journey of a small non-perennial spring-fed downstream, flowing as a tributary to one of the lower Himalayan rivers’. It tells us that the journey is not all gay, however, it isn't all odds either!
#rivers #climatechange #indigenouspeople
SUNDAR NADI, JOOJHTA JEEVAN (13:30 mins/ Hindi/ 2023/ Docu)
Dir. Mohan Lal Waskale, Shiveshwar Bediya, Surjeet Singh
Located in the Koynardih village near Ranchi, Jharkhand, are the Jonha Falls. This is a beautiful place which attracts a lot of tourists, who take away happy memories, and leave behind their plastic waste. This plastic pollution is so evident in the area, that the villages near the falls, the aquatic life, migratory water birds and all biodiversity in the area is getting affected.
GUTTER KI MACHHLI (9:55 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2024/ Animation, Docu)
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 #urbanslum #mumbai #climatechange
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Eat @Café | Relax, Shop, Create @Art Gallery
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Theme - Indigenous Lives and Habitats
SPIDERS: THE ULTIMATE WEB DESIGNERS (4mins/ English & Hindi w. Eng. subs/ 2024/ Narrative)
Dir. Paras, Nature on Duty
This is a natural history film made with the intention of enabling the curious, particularly the young minds, to connect with nature and the web world of spiders.
GAJ DHOOND RAHE GALIYARA (8:08 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2023/ Docu)
Dir. Narendra Pardhi, Sahebram Bediya
A herd of elephants came into village Pithoria in Jharkhand after 17 years. This short film looks at the rising human-elephant conflict in Jharkhand with mining, deforestation, and urban growth in the backdrop.
JAN GAN VAN (9 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2022/ Docu)
Dir. Ravindra Kumar Singh, Rohit Sarware, Ajay Bhuriya, Mahima Maravi
This is a story from East Singhbhum, Jharkhand about forest restoration through community participation. Watch Trailer
MAGICAL FOREST | जादुई जंगल (34 mins / Nimadi, Hindi with English subtitles/ 2019 / Docu)
Dir. Archana Chandrashekar | Prod. Pinky Brahma Choudhury, Shobhit Jain
Filmed in and around the dry-deciduous forests of Barjhai Ghat in Central India, this film made in collaboration with children portrays the intimate relationship that they share with the forests while addressing the issue of rampant forest fires that have been threatening its very core. Watch Trailer
#children #forestfires #climatechange
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm | Theme - Climate Crisis and the People
ARAVALI THE LOST MOUNTAINS (22 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2021/22/ Docu)
Dir. Jigar Nagda
This is a film on marble quarrying in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district. The Aravalli Range is the world's oldest mountain range, and it helps to sustain the ecosystem. Groundwater levels have been drained and average rainfall has also been depleted as a result of continual mining for the past 35 years, resulting in a serious water crisis and air pollution in Rajsamand. On the other hand, mining is the primary source of income for the majority of the population. The film examines both sides of the same coin, namely, the economy and the environment. Watch Trailer
AS FOR US (20 mins/ Hindi, Khortha with English subtitles/ 2024/ Docu)
Dir. Pawanjot Kaur
As India commits to phasing out coal-powered energy, a computer technician, a feminist social worker and a fish farmer from India’s coal-dependent region work towards creating alternative livelihood platforms for the coal community. Watch Trailer
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm | Theme - Eco Saviours
LETTING THE MOUNTAINS BREATHE (7:22 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ Docu)
Dir. Prod. Katie Conlon
The story of Project Tsangda started with the aim to protect the district’s fragile ecology from the serious threats posed by solid waste, the resulting negative side effects of rapid urbanisation and growing tourism. Leh, Ladakh showing the way to the rest of the country.
#rural livelihoods #material recovery #environmental justice #responsibletourism
CHANDLAI, THE STRUGGLE OF A CONSERVATIONIST (8 mins/ Hindi with Eng. subs/ 2023/ Docu)
Dir. Nirmal Varma
This film is about an unheard wetland…the Chandlai lake in Jaipur, which used to be spread across 9 sq. km, but is now reduced to 2 sq. km. Around 312 species of birds have been recorded here till date, yet that wetland is not yet protected by the government and is slowly dying. It tells us about the struggle of Kishan Meena, a conservationist, who has been working to protect this lake for the past 20 years.
50 TO 350 (12 mins/ Hindi with English subtitles/ 2023/ Docu)
Dir. Meera Chaudhary Prod. New Stream Media (filmmaker attending)
A dog lover's (Malabica) extraordinary journey takes centre stage, tells an untold story of the relentless struggles of people who tirelessly rescue street dogs from illness, accidents, and the clutches of hunger. This film is dedicated to unknown Dog lovers whose compassion knows no boundaries.
5:30 pm: Festival Closing
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