Abundance: Living with a Forest

Friday, March 13, 5:05 pm - 5:30 pm
Directed/Produced by Dolly Kikon
2024. India. 22 min.
Country/Region Featured: Nagaland, India | Languages: Lotha and English

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Abundance: Living with a Forest is a biography of foraging, forest, and jhum cultivation. It follows Zareno, a Lotha forager in the forest of Khumtsü, and traces the foraged edible plants as they make their way to the market in Wokha town. The film gestures to an impending loss that Indigenous communities encounter across the world. Abundance: Living with a Forest presents Indigenous foraging practice in the Eastern Himalayan region, and the commitment of foragers and community members to work towards renewal of Indigenous values, courage, and sustainable practice.

South Asia, Nagaland, India