Against the Tide
Feature length film Completed 2023
Director
Sarvnik Kaur
Producer
Koval Bhatia
Producer
Sonia Parekh
Producer
Quentin Laurent
Doc Society helped with
Production
Impact
Rakesh is a guardian of Bombay’s Koli fishing tradition. His beloved cousin Ganesh has faith only in technology and chases tuna using satellite geo-positioning. Swept up in the turmoil of an overexploited sea, climate change, and the health crisis, will their friendship survive?
Crew
As exacting in its environmentalism as it is piercing in its personal drama.
indieWire
Jan. 20, 2023
Beautiful lyrical documentary.
Dennis Schwartz
Nov. 28, 2023
A poignant look at the struggle for a sea-based livelihood through the lens of those trying to uphold the traditional ways even as humanity plays havoc with nature. In contrast, others desperately embrace the future to not be left behind.
AkhilArora.com
Nov. 4, 2023
Against the Tide takes a somber look, one in which modernism and overconsumption jas stripped not only the resources but the joys in the payoff of a hard day’s work.
Film Inquiry
Feb. 27, 2023
What Against the Tide lacks in bombast it makes up for its more pure reflection of life in Mumbai for these two individuals.
POV Magazine
Jan. 30, 2023
["Against the Tide"] depicts environmental disaster with an intimate lens.
RogerEbert.com
Nov. 22, 2023
Kaur has said that, during production, one of her editors wanted to know who was the villain of the film. The strength of Against the Tide, though, lies in its even-handedness.
Guardian
June 26, 2022
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