In a uranium mining area of Jharkhand, India, a tribal couple cope with the loss of their daughter. For them, the land and forest are witness to their daughter’s memory. With great sensitivity and beauty, the film explores the deeply intertwined connections between tribal communities and the forest that is their traditional home. Deftly interweaving the vivid colours of their festivals, their folk songs and the sense of community that binds them together, Dharti Latar Re Horo is a poetic elegy to a world that is rapidly disappearing, subsumed by unchecked development and displacement.
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Festival Appearances
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 (Online)
Vancouver International Film Festival 2022 – Special Mention Under Vanguard Award
São Paulo International Film Festival 2022
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Shishir Jha
Shishir Jha is a Mumbai-based filmmaker born in 1988 in Bihar, India. He graduated from the National Institute of Design (NID) with a Bachelor’s degree in Film & Video Communication Design. He was selected for the Master’s degree programme in Film Direction at the Sarajevo Film Academy. He also received a Diploma in Filmmaking at the workshop of the late Abbas Kiarostami – EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV), Cuba – in 2016.
He is one of the directors of Shuruaat Ka Interval (2014), an anthology of eight short films with a common theme, produced by Humara Movie and released as a feature film by PVR Directors’ Rare across India.
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