ALT EFF 2020

All Festival Pass: Indian Audience

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33 films in package
Sockeye Salmon. Red fish
WINNER: 5Hills Award for Best International Feature | Sockeye, a species of Pacific salmon, is an inexhaustible resource. It feeds the planet’s ever increasing population. But now we already know, that for humans, there are no inexhaustible resources.
The Love Bugs
WINNER : 5Hills Award for Best International Short | A film celebrating the Love of Nature…and The Nature of Love.
Elephants In My Backyard
WINNER : Bhoomi Award for Best Indian Short | Can elephants and humans live together? With spaces for elephants shrinking and conflict with humans rising, an Indian conservationist tries to develop a strategy for co-existence.
Coral Woman
WINNER: Bhoomi Award for Best Indian Feature | An inspiring, need of the hour tale of a homemaker from Tamil Nadu, who, through her paintings, has been trying to draw public attention to the devastating effects of climate change on marine life and the coastal communities.
Wade
A climate change nightmare set in a flooded, abandoned Kolkata of the future.
Peng Yu Sai
An investigative documentary unraveling the trade in Manta Rays across southeast Asia.
Closed captions available
Stroop - Journey into the rhino horn war
In this wildlife crime thriller, two first-time filmmakers find themselves immersed in a world far more dangerous than they had imagined, only emerging from their odyssey four years later.
Kokoly
JURY SPECIAL MENTION : Red Earth Award | Against a backdrop of poverty, personal loss and a marine environment changing beyond her control, Kokoly lives on a knife-edge.
Where Champagne Meets the Moon
One year with a winemaker in Champaign using strange techniques in his wineyards.
God has already gone ahead (Gott ist schon weg)
From the duck's bird's-eye view a centuries-old settlement history is described, where at the end no (Lego) brick remains on the other ...
Rearing Giants
This film explores the role of the Giant Hornet, being reared for consumption in the hills of Nagaland in Northeast India.
Gold of Cajamarca
A short handcrafted 16mm documentary about the fights against one of Colombia's biggest open-sky goldmine projects.
Logdrum of Pessao
The film tracks the making of the ceremonial log drum from techniques involved in cutting and shaping the log, to carrying the log drum over many days to its final home in the Morung.
Traces
Over the seasons we follow a logger and his horse in the depths of the Ardennes forest, and see him live his passion through the eyes of an odd young girl
White Wolves‚ Ghosts Of The Artic
"White Wolves - Ghosts of the Arctic" is the first full length Natural History documentary on arctic wolves, which shows in detail their astonishing cooperation and dedication to raise their pups in this harsh arctic environment on Ellesmere Island.
India's Wild Leopards
National Geographic Fellow and wildlife cameraman, Sandesh Kadur is on a mission to uncover the secretive lives of India's Wild Leopards.
Did You Do It?
A place that is neither urban nor rural, on the fringes of the capital of India. The film attempts to explore the dynamics between natural resources and human intervention in this place that is my home. Who is responsible- they, you, me- all of us?
Ever Slow Green - Re-afforestation in Auroville, South India
Ever Slow Green tells the story of a 50-years-young tropical forest that evolved in Auroville, South India, through some of the diverse people who dedicate their lives to bringing it to fruition.
Closed captions available
The Ghastly Fowl
The Ghastly Fowl confronts us with our complicity in the destruction of the planet. A stark, beautifully animated short story that peels away the layers of the human psyche in a countdown towards the end, which could also be the beginning.
Our Gorongosa
Dominique Gonçalves, a young African elephant ecologist shares the inspiring story of how Gorongosa is becoming a new model for wildlife conservation and community development.
Palace of Colours
A documentary that portrays the Santal people of northern India with tranquil composure and affectionate reverence.
Cries of Our Ancestors
“Cries of Our Ancestors,” is a short documentary film telling the story of the peaceful coexistence between humans and chimpanzees in Guinea, West Africa – and the way that bauxite mining (for aluminum) now threatens to destroy the home of both.
Aagaswadi - Village In the Sky
With neither sufficient drinking water nor irrigation facilities, out of desperation, Bhimrao digs a well to quench his own as well as his farm’s thirst, around which film revolves. This documentary portrays the people of Aagaswadi and their confrontation with drought and other adversities, as well as relations affected by it.
Gando
Due to water scarcity, girls in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran must travel far from their village to get water. Most of the watering holes are inhabited by a type of Iranian crocodile called Gando. Gando is the story of Hawa, a 9 year old girl who lost part of her arm to a Gando while fetching water. Nevertheless, she and others of this province honor the Gandos. They believe when there is a Gando, there is Water.
Treasures of Grasslands
film was created by us with the sole aim of creating awareness about this astonishing wildlife diversity that thrives just 30 minutes away from one of India's largest city of Pune, Maharashtra
For The Stripes
In the woods of Ranthambore - where art, history, wildlife and mankind coexist - a deaf and mute artist expresses his love for tigers in his paintings as the struggle between humans and tigers becomes tense.
Bayandalai - Lord of the Taiga
Bayandalai, last of the great reindeer herders of the Taiga, talks to us about life.
Door/Home
A poetic exploration of the city of Dharwad, split between being a rich cultural capital and an industrial, smart city.
Ek Din Banenge No 1
A cleanliness campaign led by children in Jatashakar Shivratri Mela
The Town Of Thermal Power Plants
The history of a village which turned into a ghost town because of the thermal power plants and the battle of local people.
Immuto (Change)
Immuto (Change) features members of indigenous and local communities and other activists from different parts of the globe voicing their concerns and describing their diverse efforts to adapt to changes, conserve territories, reform laws, and keep carbon in the ground.
The Wetland's Wail
Is our idea of development environment friendly? An attempt to portray the decay of the wetlands.
Mannge Thapnee, A Prayer for the Crocodile
Imagining a future without the Mannge Thapnee ritual.
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JURY SPECIAL MENTION : Red Earth Award

A film by Blue Ventures. Against a backdrop of extreme poverty, personal loss and a marine environment changing beyond her control, Kokoly lives on a knife edge. Filmed over four months, Kokoly follows the daily life of a traditional Vezo fisherwoman in southwest Madagascar, giving an insight into her life experiences and the challenges of relying on marine resources for survival in a changing world.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    00:15:22
  • Language
    Malagasy, English captions.
  • Country
    Madagascar, United Kingdom
  • Premiere
    Indian
  • Director
    Garth Cripps, Paul Antion
  • Screenwriter
    Ruth Leeney, Matthew Judge, Garth Cripps, Paul Antion
  • Producer
    Garth Cripps, Paul Antion, Matthew Judge, Ruth Leeney
  • Executive Producer
    Martin Muir
  • Filmmaker
    Garth Cripps, Paul Antion, Solentena Raivosoa, Avy, and Emilienne Razanadrasoa
  • Cast
    Madame Kokoly
  • Cinematographer
    Garth Cripps,
  • Editor
    Matthew Judge, Adam Lavis
  • Composer
    Robert Drane
  • Sound Design
    Robert Drane,
  • Music
    Robert Drane, Kristina Craven
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