By Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière
Extract
Joseph Pulinthanath takes us with Roots (Yarwng) into the mountains of Tripura, one of the seven sister states high up in the Northeast of India. The third film ever shot in the tribal language Kokborok, wrapped into an endearing story of love and loss, tells the true story of the displacement of over 60,000 illiterate tribal people in an remote area in the northeast of India for the sake of a newly built dam. These people were neither compensated by the Indian government nor did they ever get a share of the "development" of the region. Graced by stunning cinematography, this low-budget film, made by a priest turned into a filmmaker, is a real discovery, and echoes in an universal manner other stories, other places.
Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière
© FIPRESCI 2008
Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière is a Paris-based freelance journalist and film-critic for German and Swiss daily newspapers and periodicals. She has curated film programs and photography exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Born in the former East Germany, she studied in Munich, Hamburg and Paris and has Master's Degrees in psychology and sociology.
http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2008/kerala/regional_identity_blorey.htm
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