my (embarrassingly) insecure little vegetarian heart rejoiced when it learned that all the food in this film is plant-based. so often we earth and animal-lovers are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of scenes filled with chicken ribs; book descriptions reeking of very unrelatable Thanksgiving turkey scenes. it becomes hard to remember the crisp of a freshly washed cabbage or the sweet juice of a tomato that barely made it through the rains. most of all, it becomes impossible to connect…

i came here for amit masurkar's storytelling!! this was so good...it wa 130 minutes long how was it so good?? like Newton, Sherni was patient & faithful & nuanced & loud. i am rly alarmed by the extent to which marginalized folks have to go to dismantle systems that they rely on. how they mobilized the whole village and organized themselves into a Just conservation group when navigating the patriarchy and vertical hierarchies became impossible. how they hold communal/personal/climate grief when time/space to…