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EROSION
Bhangon
Director: Sourav Sarangi
English (subtitled), 60 min, 2006, India
Banks along the Ganga and Padma in West Bengal are being eroded an an unprecedented pace. More than six hundred thousand people have been rendered homeless as a result. The hapless victims watch in silent endurance as the soil takes away their culture, history and livelihood.
These victims of erosion are not compensated. Governments, both central and state, have jointly spent millions of rupees to resist erosion; but the money has been mostly wasted. Every monsoon the gushing rivers find their own way by eroding all technological marvels built on her banks.
The film seeks to disseminate the pains and penury, the anger and resoluteness of the sufferers of erosion.
Subject: Ecology, Displacement, Resistance, Citizenship, Governance, Rights
Awards and Screenings
Awards:
BFJA Award for Best Documentary Director, 2006;
CMS Vatavaran, Delhi,(Best Documentary, 2007: Water for All);
Madurai Water Film Festival, 2007 (Best Documentary);
Festival Screenings:
Kerala SIGNS, 2006;
3-Screens Film Festival, New Delhi, 2006;
Bodrum Film Festival, Turkey, 2006;
SIEDS, Bangalore, 2007;
Film South Asia, Nepal, 2007;
Bollywood and Beyond, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007;
Ekotofilm, Bratislava, Slovenia 2008;
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Producer
Sourav Sarangi
Creative Crew
Camera: Sourav Sarangi and Ajoy Roy / Editing & Sound: Sourav Sarangi / Assistant Director: Partha Pratim Moitra / Additional Camera: Bikramjit Gupta
Territory: INDIA
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