Call Of The Forest
Director: Raman Mann
Production Co: Viewfinders
Year: 1993
Genre: Documentary
Region: India
Duration: 30'
Language: English
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Call Of The Forest
Director: Raman Mann Year: 1993
Genre: Documentary Region: India Duration: 30' Language: English |
"All you men are useless", exclaims a Baster woman, after trying in vain to persuade the village leader to call for demonstrations to protect the local forest which provides the tribal people with most of their needs. And so, the women of Asna—until recently, a densely forested village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh—set about organizing themselves to defend it. Together they confront the state forestry department's officials, demanding that they stop digging trenches and laying barbed wire, unmoved by their threats or their vague promises of handing back the `improved' forest to the villagers in five years' time. Raman Mann's film re-enacts the women's stirring protest - and their final triumphant victory. |
