Quotes from the Earth: The Environment Film Festival 2010: For Ecological Citizenship
The festival focuses on different issues, regions, and struggles to give audiences a better chance to understand and engage with environmental issues. Initiating, propagating and
absorbing the idea of 'Eco-Citizens', the films will throw light essentially through four categories: Earth, Water, Wildlife and Sustainability. Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link.At 9:00 Ecological Reading
Readings from the book, The Secret Abode of Fireflies - Loving and Losing of Nature in the City which aims to inculcate this idea of loving the presence of natural spaces, that one is about to lose rapidly.
From 10:00 onwards
THEME: EARTH
The Last Days of Shishmaref (Netherlands; 91 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jan Louter
The Earth Story (90 Secs; Animation; English)
Directors: Megha Mathur and Suchi Tripathi
India's Climate Fever (India; 15 min; English subtitles)
Director: Arjun Pandey
You Can Only Clap with Two Hands (Introduction, Awareness & Capacity)
(Netherlands; 25 min; English)
Director: Jenny Van Houters
Once My Village (India; 3 min; Hindi; English subtitles)
Director: Pranab K. Aich
Last Words of a Dying Tree (India; 5 min; English subtitles)
Directors: Avinash Kumar Singh & Geeta Singh
Goa Goa Gone (25 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Kurush Canteenwala
Tears (India; 1.30 min; English subtitles)
Director: Rashmi Rajarao
Light of the Night (4 min; English subtitles)
Director: Metha Mathur
Diamonds and Rust (10.7 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Karuna D'Souza
From 14:30 onwards
THEME: WATER
Deluge (7.36 min; English subtitles; 2D Animation)
Director: Delwyn Jude Remedios
Ganpati Bappa Moraya! (8.33 min; Marathi with subtitles)
Director: Dr. Mayuri Panse
The Miracle Water Village (12 min; Marathi/English with English subtitles)
Directors: Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
The Land of Vanishing Lakes (India; 20.59 min; English subtitles)
Director: Ishani K. Dutta
Reviving Faith, PSBT (57 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Rishu Nigam
At 17.00
Discussion on Is Environment Education Still Confined to Moral Relativism?
From 18:30
Bridging the Gap (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Corinne Van Egeraat & Katja Draaijer
4 Elements (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jiska Rickels
