A view of Deja Wu of Bedbararta Penn
The historic protest of Indian farmers in 2020-21 inspired some remarkable documentaries against the three agricultural laws implemented by the central government, which have been displayed in the previous editions of Kerala (IDSFK) international documentary and short film festival. This year’s version has a documentary that sees the entire issue from a different angle, through the lens of history, not to learn which we are wasted to repeat.
Scientist Deja WuScreening is being done in the Long Documentary Competition category, to find out on a 10,000 km road trip through the US’s heart to find out that in the 1980s, who lost after the same market reforms enacted in the agriculture sector under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. Whatever emerges from the yatra is the families of farming that have fallen into the ruins, the villages have been released and the large -scale lands that belong to countless farmers are now in the possession of a handful of corporations.
Farmers commit suicide in America
In a desolate village in Wisconsin, the team meets a dairy farmer who was forced to sell a field, which his family has been farming for 150 years. One of the most shocking facts revealed in the documentary is the number of farmers suicides in the US, many of which are not heard many often. In fact, this is the aspect that hit the filmmaker when he began research for the film in 2021.
“Because I live in America in the US in half a time, there was a lot of confusion when the protests of the farm started in India. I started reading to find out what economists are claiming about the prosperity of the farm region through these reforms, there is a truth. During Reagan’s time, after improvements. Hindu,
The story is the same in grains, dairy and livestock fields, which are included in the documentary, coming with large corporations and pushing all the rest out. He says that he was in the family from almost every farmer who committed suicide. The documentary manages a delicate balance between stories that leads us and data that shocks us.
“Even though corrections fall under free market rubrics, it is actually a corporate market. We wanted to make a film that people feel that this process is taking place. It took me a long time to get a balance between thinking and emotion,” they say.
Mr. Paine, who was part of the NASA team, invented the CMOS digital image sensor technology used in digital cameras and mobile phones, more than 90 patents. In 2012, he started his feature film with acclaimed work Rip,
“I am interested in a large number of things. I think in today’s world you are boxing in specific areas and is asked to go deep into it. I consciously decided that I will not do the same thing throughout my life,” he says.
Published – August 22, 2025 06:13 pm IST
