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ANTI-COLONIAL FILM NIGHT with _Subkontinent: Kus Kari Gongul
Film screening and conversation
10. April 2026
18.30-21.00
18.30-21.00
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For free
for adults
in English
ANTI-COLONIAL FILM NIGHT with Subkontinent
We are pleased to announce the 6th edition of Anti-Colonial Film Night at Spore Initiative, a screening series organized by the Jewish Bund and AL.Berlin. Join us as we come together to watch and discuss anti-colonial films from around the world and the revolutionary struggles they represent.
Each screening features one or more local political groups or activists, who will lead the discussion by linking the themes of the film to our current realities and struggles. These discussions will bring together diverse anti-colonial perspectives at this shared juncture of empire and capital. We envisage these encounters as spaces for collective learning, questioning and reflection, and as an invitation to engage more deeply by supporting the participating groups’ work, actions and initiatives.
Kus Kari Gongul – A Song for the Vanishing Fields
(2025)
Sajad Rasool, 56 Min., Documentary, Kashmiri, English, Urdu with English subtitles.
Kus Kari Kongul – A Song for the Vanishing Fields is a documentary by journalist and activist Sajad Rasool that enters the shifting terrain of land in contemporary Kashmir — where fields are no longer just fields, and roads rarely end where they are drawn.
Filmed across villages in Budgam, Pulwama, Shopian, and beyond, the film moves through orchards marked for rail expansion, paddy fields cut by the Srinagar Semi Ring Road, and pastures altered by new corridors of control. Through on-the-ground reporting, intimate farmer testimonies, and the insights of political anthropologists and environmental researchers, it examines how large-scale infrastructure projects are redrawing the agrarian map of the valley: What begins as a road becomes something larger.
Construction corridors expand into mineral extraction: gravel, sand, and soil pulled from riverbeds and fragile karewa plateaus. Irrigation systems that once sustained entire villages weaken under altered drainage patterns. Compensation battles unfold quietly. Land is acquired, restricted, fragmented — sometimes not fully taken, but no longer fully free.
Diese Transformation vollzieht sich vor dem Hintergrund einer fragilen Ökologie der Himalayas, die bereits unter Druck steht. Gletscher ziehen sich zurück. Wasserstände sinken. Hochwasserrisiken nehmen zu. Der Film verortet diese Veränderungen in einem breiteren Kontext aus Infrastruktur, staatlicher Macht und unternehmerischer Expansion. Against this transformation stands a fragile Himalayan ecology already under stress. Glaciers retreat. Water levels recede. Flood risks intensify. The film situates these changes within a deeper convergence of infrastructure, state power, and corporate expansion.
At its heart, Kus Kari Kongul remains with the people who sow: farmers who inherit shrinking plots, shepherds navigating altered grazing routes, communities witnessing the slow conversion of sustenance into a corridor.
Doors: 6.30 pm. Film starts at 7.00 pm.
Followed by a talk with the filmmaker. Films will be shown in their original languages with subtitles whenever available. Discussions will be held in English, with the option of simultaneous interpretation if required.
