ALT EFF 2021

All Access Pass (Indian Viewers)

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44 films in package
THE WALL OF SHADOWS
When a Sherpa family is asked by a group of westerners to lead a trek up the never-conquered east wall of the imposing Kumbhakarna Mountain in Nepal, they’re confronted with a dilemma.
Into the Dark
Chasing light in Earth's Darkest Places
Moving Upstream: Ganga
Filmed on a 3000km walk along River Ganga, 'Moving Upstream: Ganga’ explores the idea of walking, people’s responses to a walking traveler in this fast paced era and an evolving relationship with the natural world.
The Pangolin Man
One local man fights to save, not only the lives of the pangolins, but also the lives of his people.
MOTI BAGH
Against the forces of migration, an 83 year old farmer-poet in a remote Himalayan village in India, struggles to keep his farm alive.
Sad Beauty
When mankind causes its own demise, what could bring consolation?
DURGA: Forging a New Trail
In northern Nepal, a young woman pursues a path historically and culturally uncommon for girls and women.
Mar & Cielo
Two brothers share an emotional journey through the desert coast of Chile, revealing the complexity of their relationship and the climate crisis that surrounds them.
Life on the Horn
Life on the Horn is political narrative cinema in the form of grieving: With the barest of means the film succeeds in making the incomprehensible comprehensible.
Closed captions available
TO WHICH WE BELONG
TO WHICH WE BELONG is a documentary starring farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional farming practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable. With quiet courage, they are improving the health of our soil and our seas, to save their livelihoods —and our planet.
Closed captions available
Musical Mangrove
Musical Mangrove is the story of a transboundary musical movement in India and Bangladesh to save Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.
A Rifle and a Bag
A young Indian couple of surrendered communist rebels (Naxalites) is fighting for their children's future.
Fat Kathy
The film is a philosophical treatise on the dependence of people on nature, and the world around them.
The Tracker
Mutinda was single handedly decimating the wildlife population in Kenya, until he was presented with another option that would allow him to use his tracking skills for good.
Baato
One Road. A world of change.
Closed captions available
IFANG
The keepers of the bear country, the coachman and his horses, the farmer and the sheep, the hunter and his dog - they are all united by their love for their animals, their mutual dependence and the order in living together with nature.
Sagarputra: Offspring of the Sea
The oldest inhabitants of Mumbai - the Koli fisherfolk, are at the brink of losing their livelihood because of the government's infrastructural projects.
Not Just Roads
NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India.
Your Tiger Our Forest
In Bramhapuri, human-tiger interaction leads to damaging conflict.
The Last Hop(e)
Is it the last hop for frogs, or will the common man reconnect with the natural world to usher in some lasting hope?
One Word
"One Word“ is a participatory documentary about the impacts of Climate Change. The movie was developed and filmed with the inclusion of Marshallese People through film workshops that ran over a period of nine months. Most parts of the Marshall Islands are less than 5.9 feet above sea level. Negative forecasts predict the uninhability of the islands by 2050. The filmmakers trusted the Marshalese people to be the only reliable experts when it comes to the story of their land.
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT
"Alles hat Grenzen, NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT" is an environmental musical, in which nature acts and speaks in a diversity of voices.
Koku / Scent
An apocalyptic day in the future...
YOUTH v GOV
YOUTH v GOV follows 21 young Americans suing the world’s most powerful government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate. If they win, they will change the future.
Closed captions available
The Price of Progress
What is food worth in our world? Power, Money or Health?
Solastalgia
Serap, a Sherpa living in New York City, gets lost in his memories of the mountains, while driving an Uber in the city.
The Burning Field
In this immersive portrait of life in an environmental wasteland, four young Ghanaians struggle to navigate work and relationships over a single day in Agbogbloshie, the largest e-waste dump on earth.
The Crab Season
What is beauty when you are deeply visually impaired?
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Connecting the fight for food, climate justice and racial justice!
LAKSHMANREKHA
Some move mountains, others launch a thousand ships. Laxman Singh turned 58 villages into an oasis in the desert of Rajasthan.
Ophir
Ophir tells the story of an extraordinary indigenous 'eco-revolution' for life, land and culture, leading up to the likely creation of the world’s newest nation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
Sky Aelans
Indigenous communities from the Solomon Islands reflect upon the sacred connection they hold with the high mountain forests, ‘Sky Aelans’, that are at risk of being lost to logging.
Sasang: The Town on Sand
A story about the village of Sasang, built on sand, and the beings who live there.
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
From the majestic peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the now parched Eastern California valley of Payahuunadü (Owens Valley), “the land of flowing water,” Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust poetically weaves together memories and insights of intergenerational women from three communities. Native Americans, Japanese American World War II incarcerees, and environmentalists form an unexpected alliance to defend their land and water from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles.
Closed captions available
BARRICADE // Pictures Of A Forest Occupation
A documentary on German climate activists occupying a forest.
Shaba
Shaba is about the relationships between the first women elephant keepers of Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, with one special elephant named Shaba.
Mt. Suswa - Life in a Volcano
Film about the wildlife and its adaption in and around the Rift Valley volcano Mt. Suswa.
A Viral Spiral
World-renowned artist Steve Cutts created an animated film for the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation, in which he not only visualizes the factors that cause pandemics, but also points at the urgent measures that are needed to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
The Ants & The Grasshopper
How do you change someone's mind about the most important thing in the world?
ENTANGLED
ENTANGLED is an award-winning, feature-length film about how climate change has accelerated a collision between one of the world’s most endangered species, North America’s most valuable fishery, and a federal agency mandated to protect both.
When Tomatoes Met Wagner
A bittersweet story of two ingenious Greek cousins who defy industrial farming by cultivating organic tomatoes sensitive to Wagner‘s music.
Shoot That Leopard
To mitigate human - leopard conflict, one man shoots leopards with his camera, another with his gun.
dhīvaraḥ (Way of life)
dhīvaraḥ', is a short documentary based on the unpredictable livelihoods of fishing communities struck by climate change and overfishing in Karnataka, India.
They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise
The documentary short They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise, follows two activists in the Enviro Protection Agency of Kuala Langat during a night drive as they fight against the tide of plastic waste being sent to Malaysia from overseas.

This pass allows you to view all 44 films on ALT EFF's 2021 program.


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With climate change knocking at our doors, we seek people who can change the script.

A school dropout in Lapodia - a nondescript Rajasthan village - Laxman Singh seems an unlikely hero. Inspired by Manoj Kumar in 'Roti, Kapda aur Makaan', Laxman quit school to study why farmers migrated as cheap labour – forsaking their parched fields.


He saw what was always in plain sight: Water – or the lack of it. With five villagers, he set out to repair the village pond. Word spread like the desert wind. Soon, hundreds of villagers joined hands.

Ponds, wells, a new canal and a checkerboard of shallow ditches to slow the rainwater drain-off... In a few years, Lapodia wore many shades of green.


Laxman Singh's unorthodox ideas created an oasis in the desert, and a voluntary force that changed the destiny of 58 neighbouring villages. When he received international recognition, the once-hostile government replicated the Lapodia model in 700 villages.


Anticlimax. Piped water reached Lapodia in 2015, flushing ponds out of people's consciousness. MNREGS dented the tradition of voluntary labour for collective good.

In 2017, after 3 successive droughts, dry taps made people realise that survival depends on local water bodies – not on distant dams. The circle - and the irony - is complete.

  • Year
    2019
  • Runtime
    59 minutes
  • Language
    Hindi
  • Country
    India
  • Premiere
    No
  • Director
    NANDAN SAXENA, KAVITA BAHL
  • Screenwriter
    NANDAN SAXENA, KAVITA BAHL
  • Producer
    RAJIV MEHROTRA For PSBT & Films Division of India
  • Executive Producer
    TULIKA SRIVASTAVA, RIDHIMA MEHRA
  • Filmmaker
    Nandan Saxena, Kavita Bahl for TOP QUARK FILMS
  • Cinematographer
    NANDAN SAXENA, KAVITA BAHL, SANJAY MALAKAR
  • Editor
    NANDAN SAXENA
  • Animator
    -
  • Sound Design
    NANDAN SAXENA
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