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  • Drowned Out (2002)
  • Not Rated
    75 min | Documentary
Drowned Out (2002)
Not Rated
75 min | Documentary
An Indian family decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada dam 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 ...See moreAn Indian family decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada dam 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... Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Franny Armstrong
Producer
Franny Armstrong
Cinematographer
Franny Armstrong
Editors
Franny Armstrong | St. John O'Rorke | Gregers Sall
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Release date
Aug 28, 2002 (United Kingdom)
Awards
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