The Film investigates the state of news in India. Journalism is up for sale and selling of editorial space has become both blatant and institutionalised.
Far East at the Himalayan border of India and China, live the indigenous Adi people, with a unique culture with animistic rituals around nature. The elegant Siang that originates in Tibet and flows down through the Adi villages is the new battleground for power. Alongside its blue waters, amidst...
Travelling through tiger hotspots like Sariska, Panna and Buxa, the Film attempts to unravel the tiger crisis and encapsulate thirty years of lackadaisical attitude towards conservation in India.
Guler, a small principality near Kangra, was an artistic and cultural wellspring since it's accidental inception in the 15th century. Many greats like painters Pandit Seu, his sons Manaku, Nainsukh, and the poet Brajraj were born here. Today the whole system of patronage under which lofty...
Vaikhari, which in Sanskrit means intelligent and articulate utterances, primarily focusses on "padhant" which is the art of recitation of mnemonic syllables used in Hindusthani Classical Music and Dance. The film incorporates different artistic streams in allusion to padhant, thereby aiming at a...
The Film takes its viewers into the sacred groves of the Himalayas that are still alive because of the faith of its people. It traces the struggles of the people to save their forests from being plundered, as they crumble under the pressure of countless development projects.
The Film follows the initiatives of conservation biologist Purnima Burman and her quest to involve community women in Assam, to save the Hargilla, a critically endangered bird, coming together as the Hargilla Army.
The film explores the transition of an entire village from one that slaughtered thousands of Amur Falcons, the longest travelling raptors in the world, who fly from Siberia every fall to roost in Pangti, a Lotha Naga village in Nagaland, to becoming their most fervent preservationists.
Chilika Bank$: Stories From India's Largest Coastal Lake From 1970-2007
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In a canvas spread over four decades, a banyan tree, on the banks of the lake Chilika, silently whispers tales of the lake and her fisher folk. From the times when there was no export bazaar, to the time when there may be no lake.
The Film is an exploration of the lives of tigers and the forest spaces they live in, outside the tiger reserves. Do these tigers teach us something new about conservation?
What do you call a bunch of girls tackling, mauling, running and kicking on a 100 yard pitch, fighting for a ball? You call that playing rugby – a sport that gifts you more broken bones and torn ligaments than any other. From Kashmir to Kerala, Manipur to Mumbai, state teams are battling it out...
Why do we have such a contentious relationship with the idea of dying? What keeps us from looking at death, or the dying, in the eye, from making peace with the process? The Film wonders if the process of dying can become meaningful and if embracing our own mortality might be the key to a more...
The Film looks at the transformation of Dalit women’s lives through their involvement in an ecological movement for sustainable farming in Andhra Pradesh.
Women of rural Punjab have long forgotten to sing the songs of harvest in the midst of escalating farm suicides. The Film witnesses the march of widows of the 'Green Revolution' in Punjab as they re-negotiate the rules of engagement and the politics of domination, in their bid to survive. For the...
The Greens of Garo captures the vision and the spirit behind the unique initiative of putting aside village community land as Village Reserve Forests by two hundred tribal villages of Garo Hills, Meghalaya, which has resulted in wild life and habitat conservation and in the affirmation of...
The primitive Paudi Bhuinyas of Khandadhar Hills in Odisha have grown up in a culture of co-existence, with trees, rivers, streams, animals and birds, profoundly threatened by mining. Their Maha Sardar, Bilua Naik, articulates with wisdom, in a language difficult to ignore, the agonies and anguish...
