Environment Film Festival, Sattur

Environment Film Festival, Sattur

Curated by Amudhan R.P.

Presented by Ulaga Cinema Bhaskaran 

Organised by Kalai Ilakkiya Peru Mandram  & MARUPAKKAM

25 June, 2023

Schedule 

11 am : Inauguration 

11.30 pm Niyamgiri, you are still alive

Dir: Suma Josson; 16 min; Odia with Eng subtitles; 2010; Documentary

This is a film on the anti-bauxite mining campaign in Orissa, India, led by the indigenous communities against Sterlite, a subsidiary of the U.K. mining company Vedanta. 

Bamboo Ballads

Dir: Sajid Naduthody; 29.49 min; Malayalam with Eng subtitles; 2020 ; Documentary

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; Documentary 

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”. 

12.45 pm : Interaction 

1 pm  : Lunch break

2 pm 

Thengapalli

Dir: Sanjay Barnela; 8:45; India; Documentary

Gunduribari is a tribal village in the Nayagarh district of Orissa known for its teak trees, the villagers were for years unable to protect the forests from the local timber mafia. Initially, women weren’t part of the decision-making process regarding forest management practices in the village. But with the situation getting worse women decided to take matters into their hands to protect their forests and all the women and girls started guarding the forest.

Dahar (Desert)

Dir: Vandana Menon; 12:16; India; Documentary

The Banni Grasslands Reserve in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat in West India was known to be Asia's largest grasslands. The landscape has changed dramatically over the past few decades due to human intervention. The film explores the impact of the invasive species Prosopis juliflora introduced by the government of India on the livelihoods of Banni.

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.

My heart is an ocean

Dir: Tanvi Jadwani; 21:50; Short film 

As the water recedes the reclaimed shore of Mumbai every evening, three children living on its shore in a small fishing ghetto come out to play on this temporary playground. The sea dictates game of the day. On a lucky day when herons are spotted hovering over the sea, it's a day to catch fish in shallow waters. One evening after fish are caught, Chirag declares that he wants to take all the fish home to build the biggest aquarium anyone has ever seen. This leads to a fight among playmates.

4 pm. : Interaction

4.30 : Tea break

4.45 pm

Green

Dir: Patrick Rouxel; 48 min; 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.

Coral Woman

Dir: Priya Thuvassery; 52 min; Tamil & English; 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.

6.20 pm  : Interaction & Closing remarks