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Description: Documentary film by Ajay Bhardwaj and Sanjay Kak
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" W hen the Tide Goes Out" (117 mins, Punjabi, English 2021) is a documentary film by Canada-based Indian Punjabi filmmaker Ajay Bhardwaj. The film premiered at the Kolkata People’s Film Festival, 2023 and Vancouver South Asian Film Festival, 2022. Although it’s not on general release I was able to watch a preview.
This film is about a period of community activism against racism and for labour rights in the 1980s in British Columbia. A farmworkers' movement led by the Canadian Farm Workers Union (CFU) and supported by left activists is at the centre of the film. This historic movement was captured by Jim Monro and Anand Patwardhan in the documentary "A Time to Rise" (1981). Patwardhan is interviewed in the film. The film expands the frame into another strike by migrant workers on a mushroom farm in 1984. The farm work
It was only in the 1960s that the white Canada policy officially ended. Economics demanded a migrant labour force.
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