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Film : Nicobar, a long way
Dir : Richa Hushing; 60 min; Nicobarese, Hindi, English with English subtitles; 2016
Synopsis : Deep down the Bay of Bengal on an ancient trade route to the far east, in the Nicobar archipelago lived the Nicobarese. The islands once upon a time were much frequented by passing traders for sojourns. The Nicobarese used to barter coconuts with them for fancies like an old hat or a coat, silk handkerchiefs, sometimes even empty alcohol bottles.
In 1956, after being annexed to the Indian state, the islands came to be protected under the Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation. Free Passage was restricted. No one, not even Indian citizens could visit the islands and the Nicobarese got cut off as if living in a time capsule until the Tsunami of December 26th, 2004.
Seven years after Tsunami, the film looks at the erstwhile self-contained universe now scattered and fragmented to eventually amalgamate in a much larger world order over which they have little control.
In 1956, after being annexed to the Indian state, the islands came to be protected under the Andaman and Nicobar Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation. Free Passage was restricted. No one, not even Indian citizens could visit the islands and the Nicobarese got cut off as if living in a time capsule until the Tsunami of December 26th, 2004.
Seven years after Tsunami, the film looks at the erstwhile self-contained universe now scattered and fragmented to eventually amalgamate in a much larger world order over which they have little control.
Credits :
Produced by Films Division
Camera : Rrivu Laha
Festivals and awards :
Madurai International Film Festival 2018
Pêcheurs du monde, Lorient, France, 2018Film South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017
Viscult - The festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, Finland, 2017
'Special Mention' award Millennium Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
World Film Festival, Tartu, Estonia, 2017 (At the National Estonian Museum)
Festival Film Library of the RAI FF, Bristol, 2017
Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, 2017
Smaragdni Eco Film Festival, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia, 2017
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India, 2016
About the filmmaker :
After graduating (2005) from Film and Television Institute of India in Direction, Richa Hushing was associated with the digital image archive at Majlis - a centre for rights discourse and multidisciplinary arts in Mumbai. She is one of the founding contributors to the Public Access
Digital Media Archive (www.pad.ma). She began making short documentaries since 2008. Her films observe intangible cultures through characters resisting social norms or responding to social flux. 'Nicobar, a long way...' is her first feature length film. She is currently engaged in raising resources to create an online repository of over 120 hours of annotated footage from the Nicobar archipelago
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