Film screening at Ranchi

By Jyoti Patale –Biodiversity Conservation

On 31st August 2025, we organized a film screening at the Keystone Office in Ranchi in collaboration with All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF). This was the first step towards starting a film club, where people from the community can come together to watch films and discuss different issues, solutions, and perspectives. The aim is to use films as a platform for awareness and education.

For this screening, we screened one feature film and three short films. The titles included P for Pyaj, P for Paisa, P for Pani, Ek Din Banenge No. 1, All Day and All of the Night, and Jan-Gan-Van. The films highlighted important themes such as waste management, the water crisis, and the importance of relevant crop selection, as well as community efforts in forest conservation. The session was facilitated by Sachin Sharma from ALT EFF.

In total, 27 participants attended the event. They included school students, forestry college graduates and postgraduate students, Green Hub fellows, and young people from the community. The students were very active in the discussion after the films. One of the forestry graduates, Sulekha Hembram, who comes from a Santhali tribal family, shared her reflections after watching the Jan-Gan-Van film. She spoke about changing food habits, the importance of forest produce, and her concerns about outsiders exploiting forests in the name of development.

Participants were happy to watch awareness and education-based films and to share their thoughts openly. The screening ended with everyone having lunch together, and the participants expressed their interest in attending more such film screenings in the future.