Still, The Children Are Here

Dinaz Stafford
India, documentary, 2003
84 mins. (35mm)
(English subtitles)

For some indigenous peoples, 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 6,000 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.