Sarvnik Kaur | India | 2024 | 97 mins. | English
Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system—a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods while Ganesh has strayed away from them, embracing technology. Against the Tide is a tale of friendship and rising resentment between the two men, as close as brothers, against the backdrop of an adoring sea, which is increasingly turning hostile because of climate change.
Sarvnik Kaur
Sarvnik Kaur is a documentary filmmaker whose work takes a skeptical stance towards the ‘grand narratives’ of modernism and ‘scientific certainties’. Made of moments that hide anxiety and conflict just beneath the surface of the normal and the mundane, her films speak of the predicament of being human in our times. Her latest feature documentary, Against the Tide, premiered at Sundance 2023 where she bagged the Special Jury Award for Verite Filmmaking. Her first film, Soz – A Ballad of Maladies, was awarded the President of India’s 64th National Award for best debut direction.
Producer: Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur
Cinematographer: Ashok Meena
Editor: Atanas Georgiev, Blagoja Nedelkovski
Sound: Moinak Bose
Sundance 2023 – Special Jury Award: Vérité Filmmaking
Visions du Réel 2023 – Perception Change Award
Hot Docs 2023
Busan International Film Festival 2023
