Letters of Hope

Letters of Hope is a film-led, letter writing workshop on eco-anxiety held with tenderness and honesty without forcing optimism. Through three short films on people, planet, and possibility, we slow down enough to notice what’s stirred and turn overwhelm into words we can carry. You’ll write guided letters to the self, the living world, and the future, then close with an anonymous exchange so you leave held by someone else’s courage.

What We’ll Do Together

• Watch 3 short films, each followed by guided reflection to help you notice what lands in you emotionally, physically, quietly
• A series of guided letters: to the self, to the living world, and to the future you’re still choosing
• An anonymous letter exchange to close, so you leave held by someone else’s courage, and carrying a small, steady way to keep going

Featured Films

• The Bleeding Tides by Ipshita Bhattacharyya explores how climate change lives inside human bodies, shaping health, survival, and womanhood on the frontlines of the Sundarbans
• Saving the Bone Swallower by Mayuresh Hendre is about an endangered stork surviving on an Assam landfill, and a community led shift from fear and stigma to care and coexistence
• I Cannot Give You My Forest by Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena is an intimate portrait of Kondh women farmers, where the forest is not a resource but identity, sovereignty, and a boundary that cannot be surrendered

This workshop is a collaboration between Bitchitra Collective, a network of Indian and diasporic women and non-binary documentary filmmakers, and The Drawing Room Club, a Bangalore-based community that curates intimate, conversation-forward cultural events - bringing film, reflection, and letter writing into one shared room.