11.00 a.m.
Film: Raga of River Naramada
Country: Sweden/India
Director: Rajendra Janglay
Duration: 12 min.
Synopsis: Winner of the Certificate of Merit at MIFF 2008 for its fascinating visuals and exceptional use of the Dhrupad, Director Janglay’s Raga of the River Narmada is cinema just as it is a poem as the many moods, colors and shapes of the Narmada are juxtaposed with a traditional Dhrupad recitation. The river evokes the song that echoes over the valleys and plains, setting tune to life itself, and the song plays on and the river flows endlessly, each an ancient entity with a life of its own but joined together in tradition, in culture, in nature.

11.15 a.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.

11.30 a.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.

11.45 a.m.
Film: Switch-Off (Apaga y Vanamos)
Country: Pehuenche-Mapuche/Chile/Spain
Director: Manel Mayol
Duration: 83 min.
Synopsis: The Biobio is an angry river, one that has resisted every attempt to tame its furious currents- from the Incas to the Spanish Armada. But with an energy giant and an uncaring government trying to construct a hydro-electric dam over its waters, the lands and histories of the indigenous Pehuenche-Mapuche tribes are a stake. However evasive and sly the officials try to be, the voice of protest booms across the land. Director Mayol captures these angry voices and images to channel them into the explosive and acclaimed ‘Switch-Off’. Winner of Best Film at both, the prestigious Planet in Focus and Ecocinema 2005.

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: Ganga from the Ground Up
Country: India/Spain
Director: Yves Saduvani & Miriam Ciscar
Duration: 45 min.
Synopsis: From the sky to the sea, from the ground up, Ganga takes us from a world of myths, devotion and celebration to the most crucial problem of human kind every were, water. Ganga encourages the spectator to see through her eyes and make its own conclusions to the situation she is living now a days; regarding the madness of privatisation, the construction of big dams and barrages and how to solve problems of pollution and water scarcity. No one values and respects more water than a village women that has to walk miles to get it, and that is the most common image in Ganga river basin. Joint us in this trip to heaven, earth and the underworld.

03.05 p.m.
Film: Bizzare World
Country: Czech Republic
Director: Steve L. Lichtag
Duration: 26 min.
Synopsis: The Carpathian Hills are interlaced with hundreds of small streams struggling their ways down to the valley. The Wolf Stream is one of these brooks. Although we humans consider them to be empty and forsaken, they have always been full of life.

03.30 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.

11.00 a.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.

11.30 a.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.

12.30 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.

12.40 p.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?

LUNCH BREAK
Time : 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

02.00 p.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.

TEA BREAK
Time : 3.00 pm – 3.45 pm

03.45 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.

SHORT BREAK
Time : 6.15 pm – 6.30 pm

06.30 p.m.
Film: Dweepa aka The Island
Country: India
Director: Girish Kasaravalli
Duration: 100 min.
Synopsis: Based on the novel with the same title by Norbert D'Souza, Dweepa deals with the raging issue of building dams and the displacement of natives. Located in the backwaters of a dam, Sita Parvata is an island slowly submerging due to the rains. The government succeeds in evacuating the inmates of the island by giving them compensation for the properties they own. The village temple priest Duggajja, his son Ganapa and his daughter in law Nagi find it impossible to leave their homeland and make a living with the meagre compensation given by the government. In Ganapa's own words, the compensation can give them food and shelter, but cannot compensate for the love and respect of their people. On the island, they are important people, but outside, they would be one among hundreds of families struggling to make a living. Centered around this complex theme, the film narrates the struggles of the family and how ultimately in the end they manage to continue life on the island.

11.00 a.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.

11.30 a.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.

11.50 a.m.
Film: The Damned of the Sea
Country: Morocco/France/Belgium
Director: Jawad Rhalib
Duration: 70 min.
Synopsis: Thousands of small Moroccan fishermen from Essaouira, the first ever sardine port in the world have to move further down south to Dakhla in the Sahara to hope to catch some fish. In the background, trawlers from foreign countries drag the waters with their death nets, killing an entire ecosystem. In the foreground, captivating portraits of desperate fishermen who've been robbed of their livelihood. It is a hellish struggle. ‘The Damned of the Sea’ is a much acclaimed portrayal of loss and displacement in the modern world, garnering awards at Envirofilm 2009, Monte Carlo and Nyon.

12.20 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.

LUNCH BREAK
Time : 1.20 pm – 2.00 pm

2.00 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.

02.30 p.m.
Film: Flood of Memory (Baad Ki Raat)
Country: India
Director: Anitha Balachandran
Duration: 11 min.
Synopsis: In 2006, a devastating flood hits the Rajasthan desert of western India. The film uses a combination of live footage, charcoal and sand animations to evoke the desert landscape, and the memories of people who live within it.

02.40 p.m.
Film: Erosion
Country: India
Director: Sourav Sarangi
Duration: 60 min.
Synopsis: A large number of people have fallen victim to large scale erosion that takes place almost every year along Ganga and Padma rivers in Malda and Murshidabad districts, west Bengal, India. The situation is worsening each year….. Concerned authorities have been callous and negligent; even they are perpetuating the problems for obvious political and monetary gains …. Local inhabitants have been alleging this for a long time to deaf ears. The film is an on location report of the grave situation made over years. It seeks to disseminate the pains and penury, the anger and resoluteness of the sufferers of erosion.

03.40 p.m.
Film: Window Facing the Sun
Country: India
Director: Bijan Zamanpira
Duration: 12 min.
Synopsis: A carnival shadow-play of prayers, ceremonies, the land and the clouds as a desert community in Iran beseeches the clouds to rain water and life down upon their scorching land. A triumphant, poetic invocation of the source of life.