| TITLE OF THE FILM | The Fisherman And The Banker |
| DIRECTED BY | Sheena Sumaria |
| LANGUAGE | Gujarati, Hindi, English (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COUNTRY | India, UK, USA |
| DURATION | 85 minutes |
| SPECIAL NOTE | Kolkata Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW
| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Sheena Sumaria, Sonum Sumaria |
| EDITING | Sheena Sumaria |
| SOUND DESIGN & FINAL MIX | Atul Lanjudkar |
| ADDITIONAL SOUND | Shubham Bhamare |
| MUSIC | Jake Walker |
ABOUT THE FILM
A modern-day David and Goliath tale, chronicling a fishing community in India’s Gulf of Kutch as they take on the World Bank’s private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for funding a coal-fired power plant that threatens their way of life. Filmed over a decade, the documentary captures the fishermen’s fight against industrial encroachment and their alliance with US lawyers to file a groundbreaking lawsuit, which reaches the US Supreme Court in 2018. Can the resilience of a community rewrite the rules of global power—or will the might of corporations and institutions crush their fight for justice?
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Sheena Sumaria is a British-Gujarati filmmaker with a background in economics and political economy, whose work explores social justice through storytelling. Her debut feature ‘Even the Crows: A Divided Gujarat’, co-directed with her sister Sonum, examined the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. Rooted in her British-Asian heritage, Sheena’s films connect local struggles to global power structures, blending poetic and observational styles to amplify marginalised voices and highlight resistance, identity and community.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Meeting Ibrahim in 2010, a fisherman whose poetic reflections and profound humanity left a lasting impression, set this journey in motion. Through his story and that of the community, the film juxtaposes intimate, daily rituals with the stark dominance of power plants and global institutions, inviting viewers to reflect on what it means to be human—and to resist.”
