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2018



The Secret Ancestral Village

ENVIRONMENTAL, HUMAN INTEREST, MINORITY ISSUES

Torsha BANERJEE

  • India
  • 70min

Synopsis

"In the fabled land of Sikkim, a northeastern mountain state of India, nature weaves a way of life blessed with

rain,intense vegetation and gracious rivers.Lepchas, the indigenous community got curbed to Dzongu for embracing the

the natural world. But the tribe is challenged by construction of a series of hydro dams intended to bring in sustainable

growth.It resulted in submerged land, landslides, disintegration of families in Dzongu.

The loss is affecting farmers like Tenzing who is dealing with anxieties for losing out his immediate world.Tenzing sees

closely sudden disappearance of his universe¡¦the families are divided because of massive landslides, colours of flowers

are changing, fishes are migrating, the river is changing it course, clouds are replaced by thick layers of dust, memories

of past are fading away and his ancestral orange orchard will sink under the water.

The film captures the last glimpses of the Lepcha people and the divine lifestyle which is soon going to be lost."

Director

  • Torsha BANERJEE

    A postgraduate in Direction and Screenplay Writing from SRFTI,Kolkata She has been predominantly into directing documentary.Her film school projects were acclaimed widely in film festival circuits including awards.Her independent debut documentary Tender is the Sight won National Award as the Best Documentary and Best Sound Designing in 2015. She is the founder of CineMaati Productions,a Kolkata based producing outfit creating diverse genre of environmental,human interest and other kind of narratives.

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