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Posted: June 27, 2005
Description: Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, relocate to a barren... (more)
Description: Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, relocate to a barren resettlement site with no drinking water or stay at home and drown.

The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks their village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills.

Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight agains the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care?

Drowned Out follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise.

Shot over three years by Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel), Drowned Out tells the true story of one family's inspired stand against the destruction of their land, homes and culture. The 75 minute no-budget, no-electricity, no-Hindi documentary has been seen by more than 14 million people.

To get involved with or support "Friends of Narmada", please visit: www.narmada.org

To purchase a copy of "Drowned Out", please visit: www.spannerfilms.net (less)

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