Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their lives
Early on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gathered around him: “We are not formally educated. We don’t have formal qualifications. Our qualifications are that we can read the water and understand what it’s telling us.”
The story of a group of Gujarati fishers from India’s Gulf of Kutch who sued the private investment arm of the World Bank – the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – began in 2015 and garnered international attention before reaching the US supreme court, finally losing on appeal in 2022.
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