MOTI BAGH

59:23 minutes, HD, 2019

SYNOPSIS:
For over five decades, 83 year old Vidyadutt Sharma has nurtured Moti Bagh, his 5 acre farm in a small Himalayan village in northern India. Around him lie 7000 ghost villages – a chilling testimony to large scale migration by locals in search of employment. As Vidyadutt Sharma chronicles the changing landscape in verses of resistance, he and Ram Singh, his Nepali farmhand, plough the fields, hoping to return Moti Bagh to its old glory.

AWARDS:

• Best Long Doc, ALTEFF, 2021

• Best Long Doc, IDSFFK, Kerala, 2019

• Special Jury Mention, CMS Vatavaran, 2019

FESTIVALS:

• • BANFF, Canada, 2021

  • BBC Longshots, 2021

  • All Living Things Environmental Film Festival, 2021

  • Indic Film Utsav, USA, 2020

  • Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, 2020

  • Entry to the Oscars, 2019

  • IDSFFK, Kerala, 2019

  • Film Southasia, Kathmandu, 2019

PRESS REVIEWS:

https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/documentary-farmer-uttarakhand-ghost-villages-moti-bagh-juliet-oscars-2020-6052323/

https://scroll.in/reel/929218/documentary-on-farming-in-uttarakhand-celebrates-the-one-who-stayed-behind

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/moti-bagh-is-indias-entry-to-the-2018-oscars/article29593630.ece

LINK TO THE FILM:

https://vimeo.com/354460653/f0968b61cb

TRAILER:

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/341175326