Environment Film Festival, Bengaluru

Environment Film Festival
26 June / St.Joseph’s College of Law, Bengaluru / 8 am to 1 pm

Curated by Amudhan R.P.



8 am : Inauguration

8.30 am

Green
Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 48 min; No Dialogue; 2009; Documentary

Her name is Green; she is alone in a world that doesn’t belong to her. She is a female Orangutan, a victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green’s final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity in Indonesia and the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for the palm oil plantations and the pulp and paper Industry.

9.20 am : Interaction

9.30 am

Coral Woman
Dir: Priya Thuvassery; 52 min; Tamil & English with English subtitles; 2018; Documentary



This will be a filmmaker's journey with Uma, a certified scuba diver, exploring the underwater world & the threat to coral reefs of Gulf of Mannar, India.Born in a traditional family in Tamil Nadu 53 years old Uma, a homemaker, has been trying to bring attention to this alarming environmental issue through her paintings. It is, in fact, these corals that inspired Uma to learn how to swim, dive & paint in her 50s.

10.25 pm : Interaction

10.45 Tea break

11 am

Bamboo Ballads
Dir: Sajid Naduthody; 29.49 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2020 ; Doc

It is the story of a school student Naina Febin who uses music to conserve her favorite plant, Bamboo. She plants bamboo saplings in every available space. She distributes bamboo saplings to the families in her neighborhood. Naina is writing a book on bamboo. She has formed a bamboo music band that uses instruments only made out of bamboo.

The Woods are calling
Dir :Teenaa Kaur; 25 min

Metha, along with other tribal hunters in a remote village of Khonoma in Nagaland, gives up hunting so as to save the forest and an endangered bird “Blyth’s Tragopan”.

Dukhu Majhi - Son of the barren land
Dir: Somnath Mondal; 28:25; India; Documentary



This documentary is regarding a relentless struggle of a solitary man in his unique way to save the mother earth.

The old man - Dukhu Majhi lives in the district of Purulia (W. Bengal), where the temperature rises upto 50 degree Celsius in the summer. He had somehow been inspired by his father in childhood and later on by a Govt. campaign on the need of plantation. There he came to know how trees invite rain and supply oxygen in the environment. He also feels that people need shadows from the scorching sun.

12.30 pm : Interaction

12.50 : Closing remarks

1 pm : End of the program