Every year, Amchi Karma Chodon travels to the most remote areas in Ladakh to raise awareness on women and child healthcare. Before her last journey, she stops by a village near the Tso-Moriri Lake (the highest lake in the world) where she tries to reach the nomads to provide preventive healthcare knowledge. She advocates for the education of young amchis, as she thinks raising and empowering youth will promote a more sustainable public healthcare model. The film tells the story of her last journey into the wilderness of the harsh and difficult landscape of the Himalayas, giving a glimpse of a life of an inspirational teacher dedicated to social work and public healthcare. It also questions the future of Amchis, which has become a tradition under the threat of extinction.
Eda Elif Tibet
Dr. Eda Elif Tibet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Critical Sustainability Unit at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern (Switzerland). She works as a Visual Anthropologist at the Global Diversity Foundation (UK), co-producer of the film Ait Atta. She is the founder of KARMAMOTION, a film collective of visual anthropologists and various artists in which to date they have produced 7 award winning films. She is an advisory member of the Enacting Global Transformation Initiative and a core faculty member of Global Environments Summer Academy. She is a founding member of ETHNOKINO, a curatorial ethnographic film screening program. She presents the first TV series ever made on Anthropology in Turkey through the documentary episodes she films and produces; “Antropolojik” at HABITAT TV.