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Yindabad
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Filmmaker Name:
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Mariano Agudo, Roi Guitián
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Film Length:
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55 min
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Film Year:
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2007
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Asia
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Yindabad deals with the flipside of Indian economic development, namely how an enormous construction project impacts an indigenous population. The Narmada Valley Development Project was created during the late 1960s to construct 30 large-scale dams, 135 medium-size dams and more than 3000 small-size dams in the Narmada River. Over 2.5 million people have been displaced by the flooding of forests, cultivatable land, and villages. The situation in Narmada Valley is an example of one of the biggest wars of the 21st century: water management and control of natural resources.
The affected people, the local Adivasis, have struggled against this project for 20 years, fighting for fair compensation and the relocation of their homes. India's current economic plans seem to be synonymous with the destruction of indigenous people's living conditions. As the cement walls stop the water that used to bring them life, the river floods the people for the sake of the city and development.
Adivasi women have gained consciousness of the dimensions of the problem and whilst fighting for the conservation of their culture, they have become main characters in this unequal fight. Yindabad shows this struggle from their viewpoint: from the riverbank, where the danger of rising water is a constant threat to the relocation process, and from the slum of the Indian metropolis, where the fight continues.
This documentary poses an alternative solution to this destructive development scheme - local instead of global development, and self-management instead of government control. The construction of small dams and the recovery of natural water deposits have transformed the deserted environment and restored water management to the local communities, opening the door to an encouraging future for its population.
For more information visit www.narmada.org.
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
La Imagen del Sur Film Festival, Cordoba, Spain, 2007
Water Prize, 13 CineEco Festival, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, 2007
Medimed, Mediteranean Documentary Market
Muestra Internacional de Cine y Derechos Humanos - Argentina, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, 2007
Muestra de Cine de Cooperacion Internacional de Balears, Spain, 2007
Festival de Cine de Ponferrada, León, Spain, 2007
Liberty Festival, Belgium 2007
Document5, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007
Docusur, Granada (market)
I Festival de Cine de Colomera, Spain, 2007
VAD - Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals, Spain, 2007
River to River 2007, Florence, Italy
9th Maduri Film Festival, India, 2007
4th International Film Festival, Bangladesh, 2008
Slow Film Festival 2008, Eger, Hungary
The Rights of Indigenous People Award, IX Festival Internacional de Cine y Video de los Pueblos Indígenas, La Paz, Bolivia, 2008
Environmental Film Festival, Washington DC, 2008 Ecobahia, Brazil, 2008
Viscult - International Festival of Visual Culture, Finland, 2008
Festival du Film de Dakar, Senegal, 2008
FIDA DOC-SOUSS, Interational du Film Documentaire d?Agadir, Morocco, 2008
Personal Stories Special Prize, International "Water and Film" Events, Istanbul, 2009
Muestra Internacional de Cine y Derechos Humanos, Argentina, Ecuador, Spain, Guatemala and Mexico, 2009
Festivals de Cine Pobre de Cuba, 2009
Festival Internacional Cine y Medio Ambiente de Catalunya (FICMAC), 2009
Green Film Festival Seoul, Korea, 2009
Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival, 2009
AAA/Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video & Multimedia Festival, 2009
Reel Awareness Human Rights Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2010
Yindabad
Produced by
Maria Lobo
Miguel Paredes
Julio Sánchez Veiga
Music by
Enrique De Justo
Cinematography by
Mariano Agudo
Film Editing by
Maria Lobo
Sound Department
José A. Manovel
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