‘Drowned Out’ Film Screening| July 16, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
WEDNESDAY 16th JULY
SusCha Film Screening: DROWNED OUT
An award winning documentary by Franny Armstrong.
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Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown.
The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills.
Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care?
DROWNED OUT follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six-year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise…
“Angry, compassionate, disturbing and yet empowering, it makes for urgent and necessary viewing.” Time Out (London)
Wednesday 16th July, Cornbury Room, back of the Bell Hotel, Charlbury.
Doors 7.30 for 8pm start, tickets £2 on the door.
Refreshments available from the bar.
Hope to see you there!
