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