TARA Alpinia nigra*
The minimalistic way of life of indigenous peoples is changing due to the so-called 'development'.
For centuries, indigenous peoples have been traditionally the guardians of the forest and its resources. Their traditional minimalistic way of living largely depends on non-timber forest products like firewood, medicine and food.
A non-scripted documentary film, TARA, takes the viewers on a tropical forest walk with Sunita Itipi and Basavu Ronglangpi, Karbi tribal women, foraging for food. Among other things, they are after TARA – a tribal word for Alpinia nigra, an herbaceous food and medicinal plant.
Intersecting the forest walk with real-life stories from five diverse indigenous communities from all over India, the film engages viewers to reflect on their own way of life and its symbiosis with nature.
The so-called 'development' is spreading to the remotest natural resource rich landscapes, changing them forever. The film frames the moods of the protagonists about their slowly changing way of living due extractive industries, lack of communal legal rights over indigenous territories, displacement due to tiger reserve, or even due to the desire we as health conscious urban dwellers' develop for indigenous 'super'-foods.
Film's protagonists are forest-dwelling tribal men and women. They narrate their first hand experience to deal with 'developmental' activities in their traditional forest areas.
The protagonists are the adivasis and a few categorised as the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups from various states of India:
NOMINATIONS & OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR SCREENING
2018: the 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival, INDIA (to be held in November 23-25, 2018, New Delhi)
2018: the 8th National Science Film Festival, INDIA for Best Documentary
2017: the IAWRT International Documentary, PHILIPPINES for the Social Impact Award
2017: the 9th CMS Vatavaran Festival, INDIA, for Best Short Documentary
2017: the 1st Echo Brics Festival, RUSSIA for Best Short Documentary
2017: the 12th Arica Nativa,CHILE, for Best Short (Jallalla) Indigenous Film
The minimalistic way of life of indigenous peoples is changing due to the so-called 'development'.
For centuries, indigenous peoples have been traditionally the guardians of the forest and its resources. Their traditional minimalistic way of living largely depends on non-timber forest products like firewood, medicine and food.
A non-scripted documentary film, TARA, takes the viewers on a tropical forest walk with Sunita Itipi and Basavu Ronglangpi, Karbi tribal women, foraging for food. Among other things, they are after TARA – a tribal word for Alpinia nigra, an herbaceous food and medicinal plant.
Intersecting the forest walk with real-life stories from five diverse indigenous communities from all over India, the film engages viewers to reflect on their own way of life and its symbiosis with nature.
The so-called 'development' is spreading to the remotest natural resource rich landscapes, changing them forever. The film frames the moods of the protagonists about their slowly changing way of living due extractive industries, lack of communal legal rights over indigenous territories, displacement due to tiger reserve, or even due to the desire we as health conscious urban dwellers' develop for indigenous 'super'-foods.
Film's protagonists are forest-dwelling tribal men and women. They narrate their first hand experience to deal with 'developmental' activities in their traditional forest areas.
The protagonists are the adivasis and a few categorised as the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups from various states of India:
- Odisha - Paudi Bhuyan tribe, Chhattisgarh - Baiga tribe, Jharkhand - Gond tribe, Maharastra - Thakkar tribe, and Assam - Karbi tribe.
- 2017
- 29 minutes
- India/ Northeast and mainland tribal India
- Spoken: Chhattisgarhi, Gondi, Hindi, Karbi, Marathi, Odiya and Paudi Bhuyan
- Subtitles: English
- Purabi Bose, director and producer
- This is an independent self-funded film by the director/ producer.
NOMINATIONS & OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR SCREENING
2018: the 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival, INDIA (to be held in November 23-25, 2018, New Delhi)
2018: the 8th National Science Film Festival, INDIA for Best Documentary
2017: the IAWRT International Documentary, PHILIPPINES for the Social Impact Award
2017: the 9th CMS Vatavaran Festival, INDIA, for Best Short Documentary
2017: the 1st Echo Brics Festival, RUSSIA for Best Short Documentary
2017: the 12th Arica Nativa,CHILE, for Best Short (Jallalla) Indigenous Film
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