Kriti Film Club presents "The Conflict: Whose Loss? Whose Gain?" a film about Adivasi communities in India at Annexe Building, IIC, Lodhi Estate > 6:45pm on 3rd November 2010

Time : 6:45 pm

Entry : Free, Call 011-24619431 ( IIC ) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event. 

Place : Auditorium, Annexe Building, India International Centre ( IIC ), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Landmark : Annexe Building is Next to Alliance Francaise
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Event Details : Kriti Film Club and India International Centre invite you for the screening of 'The Conflict:  Whose Loss? Whose Gain?' (80 mins/ Oriya with English subtitles)
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film maker.

Adivasi communities in India are increasingly becomes victims of an intensifying corporate globalization, and also the focus of a brutal right-wing communalism. Not coincidentally, these are happening at the same time. As a consequence, adivasi communities are feeling increasingly alienated from their lives and cultures in their own lands.

This film is about how tribal communities of southern Orissa, mainly Kandha, are facing upto this dual onslaught. It explores the brutal violence in Kandhamal unleashed by right-wing forces following the killing of Swami Laxmananda in August 2008. It also examines the loss of lands and livelihoods faced by Kandhas and the fierce resistance over 15 years to the mining of bauxite by large private mining companies in Kashipur. 

This film is the director's journey with three tribal leaders to Kandhamal and Kashipur, soon after the violence in Kandhamal broke out in August-September 2009.  The film asks an important question “Are adivasis being turned into sacrificial goats by corporate globalisation and communalism?”

About the Director : Debaranjan Sarangi is an Orissa-based anti-mining activist, writer and film-maker. He spent eight years with the anti-mining movement of adivasis in Kashipur, Orissa, and is also involved in anti-communal struggles. He writes on anti-mining resistance, development trajectories, communalism, and related issues. The Conflict is his first documentary film.

Script and Direction : Debaranjan Sarangi

Produced by : Pedestrian Pictures, Bangalore

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