Since the dawn of time, storytelling in community has shaped our mindset, our outlook and ultimately, our behaviour. With record heat, oscillating droughts & floods,

fires, melting glaciers (and ... you know the rest) our current narrative needs some course correcting.

All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) is back for a 4th edition, pan-India cultural event. Join us at Victoria Memorial for a unique evening of cinema, art & community. Watch award-winning global films on regeneration, activism, resilience and hope and engage in conversations with India’s most inspiring change-makers. Let’s restore the narrative of stewardship, together. All are welcome!

Program:

SHOW 1

11:00 am: DOORS OPEN (ONLY FOR STUDENTS)

11:10 am:

Biopixels

11:15 pm:

This Mortal Plastik

11:40 am:

The Floating World

12:00 pm:

informal sharing about sustainability and waste

12:30 pm:

Feeling The Apocalypse

12:40

Informal sharing about the feelings towards the climate.

SHOW 2

5:00 pm: DOORS OPEN (FOR EVERYONE) *SOLD OUT*

Morisika: The Story of the Boatman

6:20 pm:

QnA with Vandana Menon and Debashish Nandi (Director of Morisika:The Story of the Boatman)

Program Details:

Biopixels

{3:28 minutes; Kristina Dutton}

Biopixels uses the latest microscope technology to explore evolutionary biology through the wings of butterflies. English; English Subtitles

This Mortal Plastik

{21:18 minutes; Jess Irish} INDIA PREMIERE

A personal dive into the world’s most impersonal substance: plastics. English; English Subtitles

The Floating World

{9:00 minutes; Hiroshi Yokota} INDIA PREMIERE

After being transported into a 19th-century Edo painting, a university student discovers everyday sustainable practices from history to bring home to modern Japan. Japanese; English Subtitles

Felling the Apocalypse

{7:00 minutes; Chen Sing Yap} INDIA PREMIERE

A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world. English; English Subtitles

Morisika: The Story of the Boatman

{1:13 hours; Vandana Menon, Debashish Nandi} WORLD PREMIERE

Morisika: The Story of the Boatman traces the personal histories of 8 lives that are intertwined with the river during the 19th, 20th and 21st century set against the backdrop of politicised and natural events. Assamese; English Subtitles

Panelists and Directors

Vandana Menon (Director of Morisika: The Story of the Boatman)

Vandana Menon is a film maker & inter disciplinary storyteller based between Tezpur and Bangalore, India. Her work ranges from documentaries, & experimental films to live visual performances. She works with video, sound, animations and interactive technology. Her work as a visual artist pushes structural and technological boundaries creating multiple, even interactive narratives with image & sound. Across the sub- continent, in London, Istanbul and Germany, she has worked on several multi disciplinary collaborations with award winning film-makers, playwrights, musicians, dancers, architects and software engineers. Alternative paradigms of development, human rights, oral histories, arts and culture and rights based conservation of the ecology and environment are some of the spaces she explores through her films as well as the performing arts. 

Debashish Nandi (Director of Morisika:The Story of the Boatman)

Debashish Nandi is a film maker, photographer and illustrator based in Tezpur, Assam. He has traveled the length and breadth of India filming alternative narratives of communities and conservation. He worked as the Director of Photography for COLONIES IN CONFLICT: an award winning feature length documentary film under the direction of Ms. Rajani Mani (Elephant Corridor Films). A story from India that turns the mirror to the plight of India’s wild honeybees as they navigate through the fast-changing environment that is bringing them face to face with the possibility of mass annihilation. In 2020, in the middle of the worldwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he collaborated with Vandana Menon on a short film for CoVisions. CoVisions was a collection of shorts from 5 continents that documented peoples experiences of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.