A Sacred Place: Documentary film screening and discussion

This concluding MOG Sunday for June presents a screening of A Sacred Place (2026), followed by a conversation between anthropologist and filmmaker Dolly Kikon and journalist Chitrangada Choudhury.

Set in Makhel, a Mao Naga village in northern Manipur, the film explores the intertwined relationships between land, memory, spirituality, and ecology. Through oral histories, visual ethnography, and geological storytelling, A Sacred Place traces the lives of intergenerational storytellers and the sacred salt springs and sandstone monoliths that shape the cosmology and history of the region.

Makhel—meaning “a sacred place” in the Mao Naga language—becomes the site through which the film asks urgent contemporary questions: can sacredness survive amid ecocide and relentless development? How do Indigenous knowledge systems understand stewardship, kinship, and coexistence with the more-than-human world?

Part of the Lithic Worlds research engagement, the film foregrounds Indigenous pedagogy and community histories while reflecting on the environmental futures of fragile landscapes. The post-screening conversation will expand on these themes through discussions on storytelling, ecology, and belonging in Northeast India.

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