Sarvnik Kaur’s ‘Against the Tide’ has won the Special Jury Award for Verite Filmmaking in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance. The description of the film states that it chronicles story of fishermen of Bombay’s Indigenous Koli community. But with declining fish populations caused by pollution and invasive species, both fishermen around whom the story revolves are unable to find much success, adding to the burdens facing their young families, and testing the bonds of their brotherhood.
It states,”Director Sarvnik Kaur takes a deeply humanistic and intimate approach in her profile of these two men at a crossroads in both their friendship and profession. Immersing the viewer in their experiences, where neither man is hero or villain in the choices they make to survive in an imperiled world, she presents a microcosmic, sea level view of the fragility of our relationship with the changing environment.”
This is the third year in a row after Writing with Fire (2021) and All That Breathes (2022) when an Indian film won at the festival.
Her first Indian film, Soz – A Ballad of Maladies, explored the tradition of political resistance through music and poetry in Kashmir.
It states,”Director Sarvnik Kaur takes a deeply humanistic and intimate approach in her profile of these two men at a crossroads in both their friendship and profession. Immersing the viewer in their experiences, where neither man is hero or villain in the choices they make to survive in an imperiled world, she presents a microcosmic, sea level view of the fragility of our relationship with the changing environment.”
This is the third year in a row after Writing with Fire (2021) and All That Breathes (2022) when an Indian film won at the festival.
Her first Indian film, Soz – A Ballad of Maladies, explored the tradition of political resistance through music and poetry in Kashmir.
