Director’s note

The reality is that even today 70% of the world’s 7 billion plus population is fed and nurtured by small and medium scale farmers and fishers whilst the industrial farming/fishing industry is depleting our pre-existing stocks at an alarming rate. There are no economic rewards for practicing small scale fishing which is arm twisting the sustainable food harvesters like the Kolis to either abandon their professions or look at industrial fishing as the solution. I am often told that Against the Tide looks like ‘life itself’ and it is not to my credit alone. This film was made possible because of the collaboration I found in Ganesh, Rakesh, their spouses, family members and the entire Koli community that gave me a chance to bear witness so together we could meditate on how the collective narrative of our times is formed of multitudes of singular narratives of trauma. To the backdrop of a dying sea and an indifferent metropolis; this film is an ode to the Kolis of Bombay and their very heroic act of living life with dignity, courage, love and forgiveness in the face of an all pervading adversity called climate change.

CRITICS’ CHOICE

94%

Rotten Tomatoes collection of reviews plus 94% rating Sarvnik Kaur’s outing is a distinct work: deeply humanistic in approach and admirable in its clarity. Her thematic interest becomes all the more compelling in her refusal to take sides…