The End (2013)
Jharia was once a green forest in eastern India. That changed when coal was discovered in the ground in the late eighteenth century, and Jharia quickly became the main area for coal mining in India.
Yet raging since 1916 are dozens of inextinguishable underground fires, which increasingly leave their traces above ground. Houses, temples, schools and mosques, places once teeming with life now fall victim to the flames. The heavy output of smoke has resulted in serious health problems for the local population. Plunderers travel around to blow up the mines and rob the coals. Ronny Sen captured the end of human existence in Jharia through the ruins of a community without a future, which nonetheless tries to survive in an apocalyptic landscape.
