Still, The Children Are Here
Directed by Dinaz Stafford, Produced by Mira Nair
35 mm | Color | 85 minutes
2003

For some of the Garos of Meghalaya, North East India, cultivating rice is a way of life and worship. In the West Garo Hills, villagers still grow ancient and diverse strains of hill rice, in the same manner as man first did 6000 years ago. Here is a society that values life, a society based on growth and the natural order of things. As the world changes around them, they find this is no longer enough.

This film was shot in the village of Sadolpara, a large village consisting of 6 suburbs. This intimate, slice of life portrait not only describes an indigenous people and their culture or cultivation, but also speaks of the essential nature of man.