Experience the power of cooperative storytelling at the #NewDelhi2024 Film Festival. Discover captivating films and documentaries on cooperatives, including historical narratives and acclaimed productions. Engage in discussions and screenings that celebrate the work of cooperators and promote cooperative values through visual storytelling.
The Rochdale Pioneers (2012)
Directed by Adam Lee Hamilton and John Montegrande
(Plenary Hall, Monday 25 November, 18:00)
Commissioned in 2012 by the UK’s Co-op Group for the first UN International Year of Cooperatives, this film tells a fictionalised account of a group of working-class people from Rochdale who came together to change the unfair society they were living in. Their shop would launch the modern cooperative movement.
Manthan (The Churning) (1976)
Directed by Shyam Benegal
(Plenary Hall, Tuesday 26 November, 18:40)
First released in 1976, Manthan was crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers and tells a fictionalised version of the beginnings of India’s dairy cooperative movement. It was, in part, inspired by Dr Verghese Kurien, the ‘milkman of India’ (who was also the first recipient of the ICA’s Rochdale Pioneers Award).
Documentary (R)évolution – le travail est humain ((R)evolution – Work is Human) (2022)
Produced by Productions 4 Éléments
(Amphitheatre, Thursday 28 November, 12:30)
Society is evolving, the climate is changing. Many of us are wondering about our impact and choices. What about our relationship with the world of work? Can our position as workers allow us to flourish? To have a positive social and environmental impact? This Canadian documentary shares inspiring solutions from worker cooperatives to address today’s challenges.