Documenting resistance, memory and ordinary lives discussed at Meet The Director session

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 29 (UNI) The need to document ordinary lives, marginalised communities and histories at risk of being forgotten came up for discussion at the 'Meet The Director' session held at Kairali Portico on the fifth day of the 18th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) here on Tuesday. Several films presented at the session explored resistance to political suppression and attempts to preserve histories that have remained outside mainstream narratives. Director Shawn Sebastian, whose film Salt of Resistance traces the struggles of fisher communities in the 1980s and the movement associated with the trawling ban, said…