Film: Trade Winds
Country: USA
Director: Elyssa Di Giovanni
Duration: 05 min.
Synopsis: A leisure-minded lighthouse keeper puts his kite building hobby to good use when a violent storm at sea threatens his life.

Film: Deeply Superficial
Country: India
Director: Veneet Raj Bagga
Duration: 26 min.
Synopsis: ‘Deeply Superficial’ is the chronicle of many meanings the waters of the river Ganga holds for the people of this diverse country. Mired in these meanings is a strange irony- where the river is venerated as holy and pure, the condition of its water and surroundings is tragic and full of filth. The film seeks out the people working to save the river and implores that each one of us can contribute our bit to retain and preserve the essence of our rivers for generations to come.

Film: Woman of Dorfak
Country: Iran
Director: Mohammad Nami
Duration: 20 min.
Synopsis: Dorfak with a height of 2705 meters is the largest crater of Iran located east of Roodbar. The slope of the volcano is a suitable summer quarters for the people who come from humid villages and jungles for animal husbandry. On the top of the mountain there is no drinking spring water. The task of providing it is entrusted to the girls and women of Dorfak.

Film: Bizzare World
Country: Czech Republic
Director: Steve L. Lichtag
Duration: 26 min.
Synopsis: The Carpathian Hills are interlaced with hundreds of small streams struggling their ways down to the valley. The Wolf Stream is one of these brooks. Although we humans consider them to be empty and forsaken, they have always been full of life.

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Film: Sujan Bandhu, a boatman’s journey
Country: India
Director: Viplab Majumder
Duration: 19 min.
Synopsis: The river, like life, inspires us to keep moving and that is the story of this protagonist of ‘Sujan Bandhu’. More than the documentation of his life, the director feels it is the documentation of life itself.

Film: Ganga from the Ground Up
Country: India/Spain
Director: Yves Saduvani & Miriam Ciscar
Duration: 45 min.
Synopsis: From the sky to the sea, from the ground up, Ganga takes us from a world of myths, devotion and celebration to the most crucial problem of human kind every were, water. Ganga encourages the spectator to see through her eyes and make its own conclusions to the situation she is living now a days; regarding the madness of privatisation, the construction of big dams and barrages and how to solve problems of pollution and water scarcity. No one values and respects more water than a village women that has to walk miles to get it, and that is the most common image in Ganga river basin. Joint us in this trip to heaven, earth and the underworld.

Film: Raga of River Naramada
Country: Sweden/India
Director: Rajendra Janglay
Duration: 12 min.
Synopsis: Winner of the Certificate of Merit at MIFF 2008 for its fascinating visuals and exceptional use of the Dhrupad, Director Janglay’s Raga of the River Narmada is cinema just as it is a poem as the many moods, colors and shapes of the Narmada are juxtaposed with a traditional Dhrupad recitation. The river evokes the song that echoes over the valleys and plains, setting tune to life itself, and the song plays on and the river flows endlessly, each an ancient entity with a life of its own but joined together in tradition, in culture, in nature.

Film: Jal Tarangani
Country: India
Director: Conceived & Produced by the Students & Teachers
of Christel House India
Duration: 12 min.
Synopsis: Weaving notes of instruments like the flute and the guitar with the sound of the water and the students of Christel House India learn to make music in this delightful film and in the process discover a reason to celebrate and care for water as a wondrous element of everyday magic and also a scarce natural resource of immense importance for the well-being of the planet.

Film: Walk with Water (Nira Nadige)
Country: India
Director: K. Murali Mohan Kati & Manjunath H.
Duration: 18 min.
Synopsis: A sobering look at the city of Bangalore in the throes of the water crisis.

Film: Carpe Diem
Country: Italy
Director: Sergio Cannella
Duration: 1 min.
Synopsis: ‘Turn the tap off when you don’t need it. Stop wasting water’. The fundamental basic earliest ground-zero lesson in water conservation that is every mother’s continuous rant and every child’s initiation, knowingly or otherwise, into caring for his environment. Director Cannela’s film-spot is a light-hearted, surreal take on it that while underlining the importance of water to the planet and all its beings also confirms the nagging suspicion that Mama knows best.

Film: Rain Water Harvesting
Country: India
Director: Nandita Das
Duration: 1.5 min.
Synopsis: Save Water. Conserve and Protect it.

Film: Barren Dreams
Country: Bangladesh
Director: Anwar Chowdhury
Duration: 28 min.
Synopsis: In the midst of the Jamuna, lie the conjoined islands of Patilbari-Dighalkandi, formed as a result of erosion. ‘Barren Dreams’ evocatively and with a quiet dignity captures the lives of the children on these islands as they go about their daily routines. In the midst of hardship, the film locates a certain hope in these young hearts and in that perhaps, lies a better future for us all.