Bhubaneswar, June 30: The inspiring tale of a thirsty crow has made it to the Fica (Festival Internacional de Cinema e Video Ambiental) Film Festival to be held in Goiás, Brazil.

Twenty-one films selected from among 327 entries from across the world will be screened at the festival that will be held from August 11 to 16.

The festival was started in 1999 as a platform to highlight issues related to the environment. Apart from film screenings, the festival is also a stage for discussions on sustained development, workshops, seminars and other activities taking environmental issues to a broader level of debate. This year, the festival will ponder on the issue of water scarcity and conservation.

An animation film by city-based filmmaker Snehasis Das, The Thirsty Crow, which has been selected for screening at the festival, brings to fore the problem of water scarcity through the crow-and-water folk tale.

"The wisdom and knowledge that have been passed on by generations in form of folklore have always played a significant part in solving problems. But the current generations are gradually forgetting the age-old stories that teach us important lessons," says the 40-year-old filmmaker.

The crow in the film not only labours to fetch its own water, but also sends across a message to conserve each drop of water. Das says that he took more than a year to make the seven-minute film.

The film was earlier screened at several film festivals, including the Woodpecker Film Festival. Some of his other short films include Gaugunbadi Ahangna, an animation film on bringing vernacular tribal language in early child education among tribal children in Odisha and If We Can Walk Together, a film on disability.