About The Event
Vikalp@Prithvi [Last Fri]
Documentaries and Short Film Screenings
A collaboration between Prithvi Theatre and Vikalp: 'Films for Freedom', which began in February 2007. We screen a selection of documentaries and short films followed by a Q&A with the director or people familiar with the theme of the film.
Wed 26 | 7pm | Prithvi House
Watch 'The Fisherman and the Banker' followed by a Q&A with Sheena Sumaria.
Synopsis:
'The Fisherman and the Banker' is a modern-day David and Goliath tale, chronicling a fishing community in India’s Gulf of Kutch as they take on the World Bank’s private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for funding a coal-fired power plant that threatens their way of life. Filmed over a decade, the documentary captures the fishermen’s fight against industrial encroachment and their alliance with US lawyers to file a groundbreaking lawsuit, which reaches the US Supreme Court in 2018. With a poetic and observational lens, the film explores their legal battle and profound bond with the environment, posing a powerful question: can the resilience of a community rewrite the rules of global power—or will the might of corporations and institutions crush their fight for justice?
Duration: 85 minutes
RSVP at [email protected].
(Entry free on first come first basis)
