South Asia Competition
France, India
Hindi, Koli, Marathi
2023
97 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Vérité
Filmmaking)
Visions du Réel (UN Perception Change Award)
Busan Int'l Film Festival
South Asia Competition
France, India
Hindi, Koli, Marathi
2023
97 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Vérité
Filmmaking)
Visions du Réel (UN Perception Change Award)
Busan Int'l Film Festival
Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the Koli knowledge system of harvesting the sea following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods; Ganesh has instead embraced technology. The film follows their deep friendship and rising resentment against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile sea because of climate change.
Ganesh Nakhawa
Rakesh Koli
Sarvnik Kaur
Ashok Meena
Atanas Georgiev
Blagoja Nedelkovski
Moinak Bose
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Koval Bhatia
Sarvnik Kaur
A Little Anarky Films
Snooker Club Films
Liselot Verbrugge
liselot@deckert-distribution.com
Sarvnik Kaur
sarvnik@gmail.com
Koval Bhatia
koval.bhatia@gmail.com
Sarvnik Kaur is a documentary filmmaker whose work is made of moments that hide anxiety and conflict just beneath the surface of the normal and the mundane, speaking of the predicament of being human in our times. Her latest feature documentary ‘Against the Tide’ premiered at Sundance 2023 where she bagged the Special Jury Award for Verite Filmmaking. The film since then has received several awards including the Grand Jury at the Seattle International, the Best Documentary Award at IceDocs, the UN Perception Change Award at Visions-du-Reel, the Sustainability Award at Sydney International, The Warsaw Peace Award and also the Paznun City Freedom Award at Millenium Docs Against Gravity. Her first film ‘Soz - A Ballad of Maladies’ was awarded the President of India’s 64th National Award for best debut direction besides bagging the best film at IDSFFK 2017 and the Ram Bahadur Trophy for Best Film at the Film South Asia 2018. University, She is a HotDocs Accelerator Lab, Chicken & Eggs Eggcelerator lab and IDFA Academy fellow. Her films have been supported by Catapult Film Fund, Sundance Documentary Fund, San Francisco Film Fund, IDFA Bertha Fund etc.
