Screenings


Documentary Film Screenings (Theme: "Water for Life")
12.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. at The Stein Auditorium

India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
12.01 p.m. Rain Water Harvesting (1 min 30 sec), Saumya Sen
& Nandita Das, message on rainwater harvesting.
12.05 p.m. Words on Water (85 mins), Sanjay Kak, on rivers as a natural resource and their place in the present notion of "development".
2.00 p.m. Water - The Elixir of Life (Jalam - Jeevante Amruthu) (14 mins), about water & human culture affecting natural resources.
2.20 p.m. Unquiet Flows the Chaliyar (37 mins) Sanjay Mohan, documents the struggle of a village to protect the second largest river in Kerala.
3.00 p.m. Waterworks India: Four Engineers & a Manager
(22 mins), Pradip Saha, CSE, on traditional rainwater harvesting.
3.30 p.m. From Birth to Salvation (11 mins), Suman Ganguli, about conserving water resources & realizing their significance.
3.50 p.m. Whose Water (26 mins), Krishnendu Bose, on prevailing policies and community controlling water resources.
4.30 p.m. Hunting Down Water (32 mins), Sanjay Barnela & Vasant Sarberwal, on conflicting uses of water in our everyday lives - both rural and urban.
5.15 p.m. Samudra Se Boond Tak…(5 mins), Priyanka S, Siddharth S,
Paricher T, on how water effects our daily lives and how we effect it.

5.30 p.m. Lakes - Protecting & Preserving a Rich Natural Resource (9 min), Lakshmi Parthasarathy, HUDA, on conservation and restoration of lakes in and around Hyderabad.
6.30 p.m
Gulmohar
The Ridley's Last Stand (45 mins), Shekar Dattatri, on the deaths of thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles in Orissa.
7.30 p.m
Gulmohar

The Beauty of Dragon (25 mins), Gurmeet Sapal, about the role & beauty of dragonflies

Documentary Film Screenings with intervals
(Theme: Floral & Faunal Diversity of India )
11.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. at The Stein Auditorium

India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
11.45 a.m. Nagarahole- Tales from an Indian Jungle (52 min), Shekar Dattatri, on the ecosystem of Nagarahole National Park & its conservation.
12.45 p.m. Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy
(64 mins), Rakesh Sharma, examines the acquisition/ displacement of two quake-affected villages for lignite
mining and power generation.
2.00 p.m. Timeless Traveler -The Horseshoe Crab (11 mins), Gautam Pandey, about revelation and conservation of the Horseshoe Crab.
2.15 p.m. Operation Hot Pursuit (23 mins), Niret & Nikhil J. Alva,
an account of conservationist Vivek Menon's mission to investigate the illegal trade in ivory.
2.45 p.m. Kalpavriksha - Legacy of Forests (27 mins) Mike H. Pandey, on medicinal plants: the need for integration of
tribal wisdom with modern science.
3.20 p.m. In Troubled Waters (16 mins), Mitali Dutt Kakar, about
the coral reefs of the Lakshadweep islands, their deaths
and devastation due to 'El nino'.
3.45 p.m. The Turtle People (Aamakaar) (76 mins), Surabhi Sharma, focuses on habitat protection and the rights of
a local community over its own natural resources