AGAINST THE TIDE

By Sarvnik KAUR

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2023

Two friends, both indigenous Koli fishermen in Bombay, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2023
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Busan IFF 2023
Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase
Visions du Réel 2023
UN Perception Change Award
Seattle IFF 2023
Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition
MILLENNIUM DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY 2023
Green Warsaw Award, Freedom Award sponsored by the City of Pozna
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023
Golden Gateway Award
FIPADOC 2024
Impact Award
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Environmental, Female director
    • Countries
    • INDIA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • MARATHI, ENGLISH, HINDI
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sarvnik KAUR
    • Producer(s)
    • Koval BHATIA, Sarvnik KAUR, Quentin LAURENT
    • Synopsis
    • Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system - a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing methods while Ganesh has strayed away from them, embracing technology.

      AGAINST THE TIDE is a tale of friendship and rising resentment between the two men, as close as brothers, against the backdrop of an adoring sea, which is increasingly turning hostile because of climate change.