FARMS, FORESTS AND US

Theme: FARMS, FORESTS AND US
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MOTI BAGH
(60 mins/ Hindi, with English Subtitles/ 2019/ India)
Dir. Nirmal Chander
For over five decades, 83 year old Vidyadutt Sharma has nurtured Moti Bagh, his five acre farm in a small Himalayan village. Around him are 7000 ghost villages - a chilling testimony to large scale migration by locals in search of employment.

PUSHED UP THE MOUNTAIN
(76 mins./ Chinese with English Subtitles/ China, USA/ 2020)
Dir. Julia Haslett
A poetic and emotionally intimate film about plants and the people who care for them. Through the tale of the migrating rhododendron, now endangered in its native China, the film reveals how high the stakes are for all living organisms in this time of unprecedented destruction of the natural world.

THE WOODS ARE CALLING
(26 mins/ English/ 2017/ India)
Dir. Teenaa Kaur Pasricha
A film based on the life and transformational journey of Metha, along with other tribal hunters in the village of Nagaland called Khonoma, as he gives up hunting to save the forest where they have been hunting for food for centuries and also to conserve an endangered bird called “Blyth’s Tragopan”.

DAHAR (DESERT)
(12 mins/ English & Hindi with subtitles/ India)
Dir. Vandana Menon
The Banni Grasslands Reserve in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat in West India was known to be Asia's largest grasslands. The film explores the impact of the invasive species Prosopisjuliflora introduced by the Government of India on the livelihoods in Banni.

NEERUGANTHI - Generations of Water Wisdom
(9:29/ Kannada with English subtitles/ 2023
Dir. Arjun Swaminathan
For centuries, the waters from the tanks have breathed life into the ecosystems that sustain rural indigenous communities throughout the state of Karnataka, and the Neeruganti have been tending to this life force.

THE GRASSHOPPERS SLEEPS HERE
(08:00 / Malayalam with Eng. subtitles/ India/ Fiction)
Dir. Balaram J
A man comes with a mower to clear a grass field. He is interrupted by a girl who was sleeping on the grass. 

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