For cineastes and environmentalists who could not make it to Voices from the Waters Travelling Film Festival, here’s another opportunity to take a trip into trials and tribulations that people encounter in order to preserve and protect the precious nature’s gift.

How the larger diaspora’s, as also various water bodies own lifelines, are intricately linked with one another. How while the haves show wanton regard at mankind’s peril and have-nots singularly strive to see the fast depleting natural life sustaining source is protected and rejuvenated for larger public good. 

The idea behind the fest is to propogate and inculcate the need to conserve water as also to keep water as commons and not privatised.

The festival, collectively curated by Arghyam, Water Journeys, Films for Freedom, Urban Research Centre with New York’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Fest, and Bangalore Film Society, sees screenings at St Josephs Arts & Science College Auditorium.

The fare starting Monday through Wednesday, features bouquet of 13 choicest cinematic treatise on the theme, and is an eye opener. 

The compendium of shorts and long featurettes from various countries are Life in the River by Marjan Riahi, Window Facing the Sun by Bijan Zamanpira, From The Ground Up by Yves Sadurani & Miriam Ciscar, Anirban Dutta’s Shadows of Theri, Altaf Mazid’s Crazy On The Rocks, on Day 1.

Day 2 features Bijan Zamanpira’s Lets Not Disturb the Water, Sanjay Barnela & Vasant Saberwal’s Village of Dust, City of Water, Aribam Shyam Sharma’s The Dying Lake of Manipur, and South African film Orange Farm Water Crisis.

The final day sees Jo Winterburn’s Dirty Aid, Dirty Water Campaign, P Baburaj & C Saratchandran’s 1,000 Days & A Dream, Antoine Boutet’s Zone of Initial Dilution, Mohammad Nami’s Woman of Dorfak.

Screenings between 3 and 5.30 pm daily. For details and those interested in screening the package at their respective institutions contact Mob: 9343865877 / 9886213516 (Siddarth) / 25492774/ 25493705.