Nestled in the Himalayan range of Uttarakhand in India, Kalap may soon have a motorable road. Till then the village continues to be 10 kilometres uphill on foot from the nearest road.
The film delves into the lives of the people of Kalap, who for generations have been negotiating their own path for sustainable living. With increasingly easy access to the world beyond, will there be a gradual shift in social and cultural values across generations?
Kahan Ka Raasta is an immersive journey, in time and space, into the everyday reality of Kalap. It transpires at the pace of the village life, to unveil it’s many facets.
Published in the Journal of Anthropological Films, Vol.4 No.1, Nordic Anthropological Film Association, Norway 2020
Festival Awards & Screenings
Official Selection at the 15th Ethnographic Films Review Eyes and Lenses, Warsaw, Poland 2020
Official Selection at Cultureels Ethnographic Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland 2019
Official Selection at Freiburg Film Forum, Germany 2019
Official Selection at The Irregulars Art Fair, New Delhi, India 2019
Official Selection at Ethnografilm, Paris, France 2019
Official Selection at the Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2019
Official Selection and Best Student Film Award at Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, USA 2018
Official Selection at the Kratovo Ethnological Film Festival, North Macedonia 2018
Official Selection at the International Festival of Ethnological Film, Belgrade, Serbia 2018
Official Selection at the Marburg International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany 2018
Official Selection at Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow, Russia 2018
Official Selection at the Displacements Virtual Film Festival, USA 2018
Official Selection & ICIMOD Best Mountain Film Award at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, Nepal 2017
Official Selection at Cut.in Student’s Film Festival, Mumbai, India 2017
Other Screenings
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India 2019
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 2019
IUAES, Inter-Congress World Solidarities, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland 2019
University of Münster, Germany 2019
Kalap Village, India 2019
Kunzum Café, Delhi, India 2018
Visual Anthropology Centre, Belgrade, Serbia 2018
Carpe Diem, Goa, India 2018
Red Bricks, Mumbai, India 2018
Shoonya – Centre for Art and Somatic Practices, Bengaluru, India 2018
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, India 2018
Studio Safdar, Delhi, India 2018
Conflictorium, Ahmedabad, India 2018
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India 2018
Waari Café, Pune, India 2018
Pagdandi Café, Pune, India 2018
Process Documentation Link - issuu.com/savsachi/docs/kahan_ka_raasta
