At a time when global lawmakers are pushing new technologies that will only further entrench the consequences of the industrial paradigm, it is vital to listen to the diversity of voices already practicing an ecological way of life. Voices that are also on the frontlines of the destruction caused by industrial agriculture. The voices of women, indigenous people, peasants, and small farmers.
English subtitles available
This film narrates stories of deeply embedded entanglements of communities with their native seeds, local food diversity, land, and rivers through ceremonies, songs and festivals. These farming communities of India mitigate climate change, and reclaim their seed and food sovereignty by keeping these ceremonies alive.
This 35 minute short film is a snippet of the grassroots work, the Navdanya farmers’ movement founded by Dr.Vandana Shiva has been doing for over forty years. Join us in celebrating these communities that have relentlessly fought against structures of colonization and capitalism to keep their way of knowing, living and being alive.
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Shakti is drawn from the voices of women organic farmers of the Mahila Anna Swaraj (MAS) movement across India.
It documents their resilience and drive as seed keepers and protectors of seed freedom, and as cultivators of gardens of hope, a paradigm for food health & security.
It shares their stories in building on indigenous, sustainable forms of farming that have fought the legacy of debt and tragedy created by GMO corporations, and carried their communities through the challenges and uncertainties of the pandemic.
This 35-minute short film is a window into the grassroots work of Navdanya and Mahila Anna Swaraj, sowing an organic, women-led paradigm for our food future.
English, Spanish, Basque, Italian, German subtitles available
English subtitles available
