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Films on Water

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Sl. No. Title Director Duration Language
1 Marubhumi Amar Kanwar 52 mnts Hindi with English subtitles
2 Hunting down water Sanjay Barnela & Vasant Saberwal 32 mnts English with subtitles
3 Rainwater harvesting Saumya Sen & Nandita Das 1mnt - 30 seconds English, Hindi, Tamil
4 Chaliyar…the final struggle P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran 35 mnts Malayalam with English subtitles
5 A valley refuses to die K.P. Sasi 41 mnts English
6 Words on water Sanjay Kak 85 mnts English

 

Marubhumi
Director: Amar Kanwar
Duration: 52 mnts
Language: Hindi with English subtitles

Marubhumi is a documentary about the story of water in Rajasthan, India and strings together glimpses of the history, policies and development of water harvesting in ancient and modern Jodhpur.

Hunting down water
Director: Sanjay Barnela & Vasant Saberwal
Duration: 32 mts
Language: English with subtitles

Hunting down water studies the dynamics of man- made crisis and the insular way of looking at it by the urban citizen.

Rainwater harvesting
Director: Saumya Sen & Nandita Das
Duration: 1mnt - 30 seconds
Language: English, Hindi, Tamil

This public service advertisement is to promote water harvesting as a lesson from the past, which provides us a solution for the future.

Chaliyar... the final struggle
Director: P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran
Duration: 35 mnts
Language: Malayalam with English subtitles

This film is on the first environmental struggle in India, its river and its people.

A valley refuses to die
Director: K.P. Sasi
Duration: 41 mnts
Language: English

A valley refuses to die is the earliest film against large dams in India

Words on water
Director: Sanjay Kak
Duration: 85 mnts
Language: English

For more than 15 years, people of the Narmada Valley in central India have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India’s development politics. This film was shot over a period of two years, after the Supreme Court lifted the stay on the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam and pushed the resistance into its most critical phase.