Odia Doc ‘The Sea & Seven Villages’ Selected For Screening At IFFI 2023
Bhubaneswar, Oct 26: Acclaimed Odia documentary ‘The Sea & Seven Villages’, presented by Achyuta Samanta, has been selected for screening at the prestigious 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2023 in Goa, being held from November 20 to 28.
The documentary has been selected in the Indian Panorama under the category of ‘Non-Feature Films’ along with 20 other films. The documentary has been produced by Dr Iti Samanta under the banner of Kadambini Media and directed by Himansu Sekhar Khatua.
The selection of the documentary was announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the organiser of the IFFI, through a government release. In all, 25 feature films have been selected for screening at the festival.
The Sea & Seven Villages’ is based on exhaustive research carried out by Khatua about Satabhaya, a region in the Kendrapada district of Odisha. Once a thriving place, the documentary talks about an area comprising a cluster of seven villages that fell hostage to climate change because of rising sea level and erosion. It talks about five villages that have taken watery graves with time. The documentary also gives a real picture of the life and struggle of the people of Satabhaya, known for their dare devilry attitude in facing the onslaught of the sea.
The documentary has won numerous accolades and has been screened at the Lane Doc Fest in the United States, the 15th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, Jagran Film Festival, Madurai International Documentary Short Film Festival, the 10th Siliguri Short and Documentary Film Festival, besides other festivals.
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