Idsffk 2025: Bedabrata Pain’s Deja Vu Looks at Farm Protests from a Fresh Angle

The historic protest of Indian farmers in 2020-21 against the three farm laws enacted by the union government had inspired some remarkable documents, which have been shouted in the past educes of the internal Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Idsffk). This year’s edition features a documentary that looks at the whole issue from a different angle, thought the lens of history, not learning which we are domed to repeat.

Scientist-Turned-Filmmmaker Bedabrata Pain’s Deja vuBeing screened in the long documentary competition category, takes us on a 10,000 km road trip through the heart of america to find out who benefited and who lost and who is the lover Agricultural Sector in the Us in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan. What Emerges from the Travels Are Farming Families which have fallen Into Ruins, Abandoned Villages and Massive Tracts of Lands that Belonged to Countless Farmers No in the Possestion of a handful.

Bedabrata Pain

Farmer suicides in the US

In a desolate village in wisconsin, the team meets a dairy farmer who was forced to sell a farm which his family has been farming for 150 years. One of the most shocking facts reviewed in the documentary is the number of farmer suicides in the US, of which not much is often heard of. In Fact, it is this aspect which will struruck the film when he began research for the film in 2021.

“Because I live in the us half of the time, there was much confusion when the farm protests began in India. Prosperity through these reforms. The first thing I came out Entre Lifestyles that disappeared. America, Destroying the Enter Sector, “Says Mr. Pain in an interview to The Hindu,

The story is the same in the grain, dairy and the livestock sectors that the documentary covers, with big corporates coming in and pushing everything else out. He says almost every farmer they met had someone in the family who committed suicide. The documentary manages a delicate balance between stories that moves us and data that shocks us.

“Even thought the reforms come under the rubric of the free market, it is actually a corporate market. Balance Right Between Thinking and Feeling Took Me a Lot of Time, ”He Says.

Mr. Pain, who was part of the nasa team that invented the CMOS digital image sensor technology used in digital cameras and mobile phones, holds over 90 patents. In 2012, He made his feature film debut with acclaimed work Chittagong,

“My Interest is in a large number of things. Life, “He says.