Documentaries and Short Film Screenings
Fri 26 | 7 pm | Prithvi House
WATCH 3 SHORT FILMS!
TARA... Alpinia Nigra
This film takes the audience on a tropical forest walk with Karbi tribal women from Assam, foraging for forest food. It frames the moods of the protagonists about their slowly changing way of living due to extractive industries, or displacement from their forest land due to Tiger Conservation projects, or even due to the desire we as health-conscious urban dwellers develop for indigenous 'super-foods'.
TASAWWUF... Planting Trees of Life?
This is a film about India's increasing thirst for palm oil - worth US$93 billion global market with India as the top consumer. It talks about how Mizoram is promoting 'settled' oil palm farming by weaning farmers from traditional sustainable practice of shifting cultivation - locally known as jhum.
Followed by Q&A with Director Purabi Bose
PANJE - The Last Wetland
A decade ago, Uran (60 kms from Mumbai) was a land rich in bio-diversity. After the clearance of NMSEZ, the entire habitat of migratory birds was destroyed except one - Panje. Today, this wetland is the only hope for all those migratory birds coming from Siberia and Greenland. This film showcases the change that Uran has witnessed and hopes to save this last adobe of avian paradise.
Followed by Q&A with Director Aishwarya Sridhar
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