Children of the Soil

Children of the Soil was born out of a quiet discomfort—an unsettling awareness of how easily we, as a society, have distanced ourselves from those who sustain us.

Farmers are not just cultivators of land; they are custodians of life itself. And yet, their stories often remain buried beneath statistics, reduced to fleeting headlines, or worse, forgotten entirely. This film is our attempt to reclaim that narrative—not through reportage, but through emotion.

We chose clay as our primary medium because it is both literal and symbolic. It is the very soil that nurtures life, and in our film, it becomes the body, the breath, and the silent witness to suffering.

Over a hundred handcrafted clay sculptures were created to embody the lives, struggles, and unspoken grief of farmers and their families.

This is not just a film about farmer suicides. It is about systemic neglect, about migration, displacement, and the widening chasm between those who produce and those who consume. It is also about memory—how we remember, and how easily we choose to forget.

Children of the Soil is an ode. An ode to resilience. To sacrifice. To the unseen hands that feed us.

We hope the film does not merely inform, but moves—gently urging the viewer to pause, reflect, and perhaps, reconnect with a truth we have long overlooked:

Without farmers, there is no civilisation. No future.