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OUR HOME -India/Manipuri/87 minutes/ Director – Romi Meitei/2018
Romi Meitei’s movie Our Home portrays the joy of having a home, dreaming of a bright future and a peaceful life. Despite belonging to an isolated fishing community of the Loktak Lake in Manipur, Chaoren the little boy (played by Master Ningthoujam Priyojit) is excelling in his studies. Even when the circumstances force his family to sell the canoe he uses every day to go to school, he travels the long distance to his school by swimming his way through the Lake. But the Government issues an eviction notice to the fisher-folk, whose only source of income is selling fish, under the Loktak Protection Act, 2006. Their only means of livelihood has been snatched away for ever and they get displaced. The pain experienced by the protagonist epitomizes the general suffering of the fisher-folk. Romi Meitei the Director is a prolific filmmaker and many of his films have been screened in world-renowned film festivals including IFFI, MIFF, IFFK, and won several awards.