Songlines

Set in the Himalayan districts of Kumaon and Garhwal, the film explores the lives of three generations of women, ending with the fourth, a small girl on the threshold of growing up.

A film on the filmmaker’s brush with cancer, and the fears and dilemmas on what course of treatment to follow. Through music, there are musings on love, death and memory.

"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...

film by vasudha joshi