The Fisherman and the Banker: film charts Indian fishers' fight with a giant

Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant's impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gathered around him: "We are not formally educated. We don't have formal qualifications. Our qualifications are that we can read the water and understand what it's telling us."The story of a group of Gujarati fishers from India's Gulf of Kutch who sued the private investment arm of the World Bank - the International Finance Corporation (IFC) - began in 2015 and garnered international attention before reaching the US supreme court, finally losing on appeal in 2022. Continue reading...