FILM FEST "Quotes from the Earth" An Environmental Film Festival at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 2nd & 3rd December 2016

Time : 
2nd December : 9:30 am - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 02/12/2016 09:30 02/12/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata FILM FEST "Quotes from the Earth" An Environmental Film Festival Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/film-fest-quotes-from-earth.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY
3rd December : 9:45 am - 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 03/12/2016 09:45 03/12/2016 18:30 Asia/Kolkata FILM FEST "Quotes from the Earth" An Environmental Film Festival Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/11/film-fest-quotes-from-earth.html C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.

Venue : C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : FILM FEST "Quotes from the Earth" An Environmental Film Festival.
Toxics Link and India International Centre invites everyone to the next in the series of ‘Quotes from the Earth’ – an Environmental Film Festival. The Festival will be a discursive platform to highlight environmental challenges at the national and international level through films, which are a powerful medium of communication and discussion. The two-day long environmental film festival will bring under one umbrella the persistent and persuasive films from India and around the world. A total of 17 films will be screened on themes of biodiversity, waste management, toxic chemicals and climate change. The films are directed by renowned and award winning film-makers from India and abroad. 

Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link and with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, the seventh edition of the festival presents a screening of 17 films. The festival includes national award winning films covering the themes of bio-diversity, waste, climate change, chemicals and sustainability. Directors of some of the films will be present to introduce their films and lead a discussion

Schedule : 

2nd December : 

Inauguration
By Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director-General of TERI – The Energy & Resources Institute, and a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change

Followed by a cultural performance

From 11:15 to 13:45
More than Honey (91 min; 2012; English subtitles) – Director: Markus Imhoof
The film examines the vexing issue of why bees worldwide are facing extinction

Saving the Saviour (27 min; 2016; English) – Director: Jalal Ud Din Baba
The film follows the story of Billa, an orphan boy as he cleans up lake Wular in Kashmir

Death by Design (74 min; 2014; English) – Director: Sue Williams
On the threats posed by the electronic industry on environment and human health

From 15:05 onwards
Taming the Teesta (16 min; 2015; English) – Director: Taylor Graham
Following the mighty river’s course and the story of those who fight against the rampant hydroelectric development

Toxics Trail (26 min; 2015; English & with subtitles) – Director: Ishani Dutta
Focusing on the informal e-waste recycling industry and the environmental and human hazards it creates

Hope: Climate Positive Stories From India (30 min; 2015; English) – Directors: Rishu Nigam & Gurmeet Sapal
A collection of uplifting stories highlighting the strength of India’s traditions and ingenuity in addressing climate change

Metamorphosis (14 min; 2016; English subtitles) – Director: Adrian Acre
The Guadalupe dam watershed in Mexico which  shelters an endangered amphibian – the mountain Axolotl

Bhopal Express (100 min; 1999; English subtitles) – Director: Mahesh Mathai

A powerful drama about a newlywed couple whose lives change forever after the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy 

3rd December : 

From 09:45 – 10:30 – Cultural Performance

From 10:30 to 13:50
Making an Ancient Forest (52 min; 2015; English) – director: Rita Schlamberger
A study on the incredible recovery of the Kalkalpen National Park’s forests in Austria

Kaziranga (15 min; 2015; English) – director: Mariah Wilson
The battle between poachers and conservationists in the last stronghold of the endangered Indian Rhino

Scavenging Dreams (28 min; 2008; English subtitles) – directors: Jasmine K. Roy & Avinash Roy
The lives of children working as rag-pickers in Delhi

The Man who Dwarfed the Mountains (59 min; 2015; English) – directors: Ruchi Srivastava & Sumit Khanna
On the life of Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the first modern environmentalist of India

Kiska Jungle, Kiska Mangal? (Whose Forest is It Anyway?; 21 min; 2015; English subtitles) 
Directors: Aditi Saraswat, Akshay Panse, Rameshwar Jirwankar, Sujata Sarkar & Tanvi Khemani
The encroachment of Mumbai government in the forest of Aarey Milk colony

From 14:30 onwards
Nagaland is Changing (27 min; 2015; English) – director: Gurmeet  Sapal
A study of the tenuous relationship between man and nature in Nagaland

Dongar Dei Paribi Nahin (I cannot give you my forest; 45 min; 2014; English subtitles)
Directors: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl
National award winning film on the mindless destruction of Niyamgiri forest in the name of development

Missing (14 min; 2015; English subtitles) – director: Krishnendu Bose
The film follows rural Indian women in their daily fight against climate change impacts

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal (Birds with large wings; 113 min; 2015; English subtitles)
Director: Dr. Biju

Through the eyes of a fictional photographer, the film portrays the consequences of a highly toxic pesticide Endosulfan on the people and environment in Kasaragod, Kerala

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