by Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar (India 2017)

A musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators in a village close to the India-Myanmar border. While working in the fields in small cooperative groups, the men and women sing together – songs that follow the seasons. Screened at IDFA and Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2018.

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Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar, directors.