10.30 a.m.
Film: Holy Water
Country: Sweden/India
Director: Lotta Ekelunnd
Duration: 23 min.
Synopsis: As the cola companies deplete and pollute the essential ground water of the communities, strong feminine voices rise in protest. And while they are successful in shutting down a cola plant, the film debates the larger and ever-more-pertinent question of our age- Whose water? And to whom does it rightfully belong?

10.50 a.m.
Film: A Sea Change
Country: USA
Director: Barbara Ettinger
Duration: 85 min.
Synopsis: The oceans of the world are in great turmoil and in the last few years, the waters have increasingly turned acidic, corrosive and dangerous to all forms of life. Fearing for the near future into which his grandson and a new generation will grow into, Sven Huseby, retired professor and all-round jovial gentleman, sets out on a journey to uncover the roots, the effects and the damage of the environmental catastrophe and then, towards solutions and hope. Evocative and charged with the spirit of adventure and discovery, ‘A Sea Change’ was awarded the prestigious Dumosa Award for Best Coastal Film.

12.15 p.m.
Film: Umiaq Skin Boat
Country: Canada
Director: Jobie Weetaluktuk
Duration: 31 min.
Synopsis: Umiaq Skin Boat is a beautiful and poetic film about a group of Inuit elders in Inukjuak, Quebec who decide one summer to build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in over 50 years. Umiaq Skin Boat bears witness to the resilience of the Inuit spirit in rapidly changing times.

LUNCH BREAK
Time : 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

02.00 p.m.
Film: Sujan Bandhu, a boatman’s journey
Country: India
Director: Viplab Majumder
Duration: 19 min.
Synopsis: The river, like life, inspires us to keep moving and that is the story of this protagonist of ‘Sujan Bandhu’. More than the documentation of his life, the director feels it is the documentation of life itself.

02.20 p.m.
Film: Chilika Banks
Country: India
Director: Akanksha Joshi
Duration: 60 min.
Synopsis: In a canvass spread over four decades, a banyan tree, on the banks of the lake Chilika, silently whispers tales of the lake and her fisher flock. From the times when there was no export bazaar to the time when there may be no lake.

03.20 p.m.
Film: Woman of Dorfak
Country: Iran
Director: Mohammad Nami
Duration: 20 min.
Synopsis: Dorfak with a height of 2705 meters is the largest crater of Iran located east of Roodbar. The slope of the volcano is a suitable summer quarters for the people who come from humid villages and jungles for animal husbandry. On the top of the mountain there is no drinking spring water. The task of providing it is entrusted to the girls and women of Dorfak.

DISCUSSIONS
Time : 3.40 pm onwards

12.30 p.m.
Film: Jal Tarangani
Country: India
Director: Conceived & Produced by the Students & Teachers
of Christel House India
Duration: 12 min.
Synopsis: Weaving notes of instruments like the flute and the guitar with the sound of the water and the students of Christel House India learn to make music in this delightful film and in the process discover a reason to celebrate and care for water as a wondrous element of everyday magic and also a scarce natural resource of immense importance for the well-being of the planet.

12.40 p.m.
Film: Barren Dreams
Country: Bangladesh
Director: Anwar Chowdhury
Duration: 28 min.
Synopsis: In the midst of the Jamuna, lie the conjoined islands of Patilbari-Dighalkandi, formed as a result of erosion. ‘Barren Dreams’ evocatively and with a quiet dignity captures the lives of the children on these islands as they go about their daily routines. In the midst of hardship, the film locates a certain hope in these young hearts and in that perhaps, lies a better future for us all.

01.10 p.m.
Film: Waterworks
Country: Bangladesh
Director: Anwar Chowdhury
Duration: 22 min.
Synopsis: Artist Farida Zaman describes the influence of her childhood memories of boats, fishing nets, fishes, fishermen on her life and paintings. Her country’s rivers, the life around them and her nostalgia for peace and quiet of the rural countryside inevitably find their way into her work.

02.15 p.m.
Film: Heather and Goliath
Country: USA
Director: Thea Mercouffer
Duration: 10 min.
Synopsis: A rousing account of a biologist with the Army Corps of Engineers, a satirist and a bunch of boaters stand up to the authorities, and change the course of history for the embattled LA river.

02.30 p.m.
Film: Source to Sea: The Columbian River Swim
Country: USA/Canada
Director: Andy Morris
Duration: 90 min.
Synopsis: Chris Swan swam 1243 miles in 13 months, all across the Columbia River, braving not just cold and exhaustion but pollution and encroachments which threaten to turn the once thriving and glorious water body into sewage, displacement and extinction. Andy Morris’s remarkable ‘Source to Sea’ is not just a rousing paean to human endeavor but also spans the ancient story of a river and the life and culture that thrives in and around it. It is through these epic narratives that the film arrives on the essential connect between man and the elements; one we are in the danger of forgetting. Winner of the Best Environmental activism/ Social Justice Award and Most Inspiring Adventure Film Award.

04.00 p.m.
Film: Living Water: in the beginning
Country: India
Director: Vinay Silva & Divya Bhatt
Duration: 23 min.
Synopsis: Living Water explores the wisdom of God manifested through water. It reflects the struggle of earth and mankind as we endeavour to understand water, its all encompassing utility and its preservation. The film implores that ‘Preservation is Communion’ is the key.
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul !!!!

DISCUSSIONS
Time : 4.20 pm onwards

12.30 p.m.
Film: Deeply Superficial
Country: India
Director: Veneet Raj Bagga
Duration: 26 min.
Synopsis: ‘Deeply Superficial’ is the chronicle of many meanings the waters of the river Ganga holds for the people of this diverse country. Mired in these meanings is a strange irony- where the river is venerated as holy and pure, the condition of its water and surroundings is tragic and full of filth. The film seeks out the people working to save the river and implores that each one of us can contribute our bit to retain and preserve the essence of our rivers for generations to come.

01.00 p.m.
Film: Walk with Water (Nira Nadige)
Country: India
Director: K. Murali Mohan Kati & Manjunath H.
Duration: 18 min.
Synopsis: A sobering look at the city of Bangalore in the throes of the water crisis.

LUNCH BREAK
Time : 1.20 pm – 2.00 pm

02.00 p.m.
Film: Call of the Thirsty Jholapuri
Country: India
Director: Nafisa Barot
Duration: 54 min.
Synopsis: In simplest of terms, ‘Call of the Thirsty Jholapuri’ spells out the need of the hour in pursuit of a better tomorrow. Dramatizing a fable of a village girl who completes her education and returns to her village to unite the people in the river basin through a Prem Setu (Love Bridge), the film calls for a more gender just, equitable, peaceful, sustainable future.

03.00 p.m.
Film: Sharing Paradise
Country: USA/Indonesia
Director: Amelia Hapsari
Duration: 58 min.
Synopsis: The fishing community of the rustic Indonesian Island of Balobaloang is facing a crisis like they have never faced before, a thoroughly modern one. For a community that stills bides by traditional practices, their waters have increasingly come under siege by fishermen from neighboring islands, who even after depleting their own island’s fish reserves, continue to engage in dynamite bombing and cyanide fishing. Director Amelia Hapsari gathers the Balobaloang community around her and together their voices shape the narrative and the story of ‘Sharing Paradise’.

4.00 p.m.
Film: Secret Life
Country: Poland
Director: Joanna Hoffmann
Duration: 12 min
Synopsis: The video refers to the contemporary quest for life and its definition. In a poetic way, it combines micro and macro scales, scientific images with everyday surrounding and experiences. It touches the subject of water as a source of life.

DISCUSSIONS
Time : 4.15 pm onwards