Six tribes. Under 1,000 souls. One filmmaker chasing extinction before the tide takes them.
Aruna Har Prasad travels to the inaccessible locations in the Andamans archipelago, to document the last of the world's living aborigines. It portrays the life and time of six tribes, which number less than a thousand and await extinction. Shot on location and 40 days on sea. It was nominated for the 1995 Mumbai International Film Festival.
Cinematography
Remote locations most humans will never witness.
Direction
40 days at sea for footage this irreplaceable.
Director
Aruna Har Prasad
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aruna Har Prasad is one of the few Indian filmmakers to document the Sentinelese before access was permanently restricted following the 2018 John Allen Chau incident.
The Great Andamanese tribe featured in the film now numbers under 50; their language died with its last fluent speaker in 2009, making this footage linguistically priceless.
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