Midnight Tails will take you on a journey through the jungles - both concrete and biotic! Find joy watching baboons splay themselves across the roots of ancient trees; learn what light pollution and thinning ice can do to ecosystems that thrive in Arctic darkness; explore rapid urbanisation and the lives it alters; meet one man saving the lives of not only the Pangolins in Uganda, but also the people who hunt them; and teleport to France - behind the cliff of Etretat, where in an almost lunar space, a blind man with seasoned hands hunts crabs and lobsters. Whether you are wild or domesticated, this strand is for you.
NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India. Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometers per day under the Indian government's Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) program.
The program aims to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working class neighbourhoods, and nomadic herders. It is criss-crossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors.
- Year2020
- Runtime67 minutes
- LanguageHindi, English
- CountryIndia, Switzerland
- PremiereYes
- DirectorNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ScreenwriterNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ProducerNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- FilmmakerNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- CinematographerNitin Bathla
- EditorKlearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ComposerLudwig Berger
- Sound DesignLudwig Berger
- MusicLudwig Berger
Midnight Tails will take you on a journey through the jungles - both concrete and biotic! Find joy watching baboons splay themselves across the roots of ancient trees; learn what light pollution and thinning ice can do to ecosystems that thrive in Arctic darkness; explore rapid urbanisation and the lives it alters; meet one man saving the lives of not only the Pangolins in Uganda, but also the people who hunt them; and teleport to France - behind the cliff of Etretat, where in an almost lunar space, a blind man with seasoned hands hunts crabs and lobsters. Whether you are wild or domesticated, this strand is for you.
NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India. Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometers per day under the Indian government's Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) program.
The program aims to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working class neighbourhoods, and nomadic herders. It is criss-crossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors.
- Year2020
- Runtime67 minutes
- LanguageHindi, English
- CountryIndia, Switzerland
- PremiereYes
- DirectorNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ScreenwriterNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ProducerNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- FilmmakerNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- CinematographerNitin Bathla
- EditorKlearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ComposerLudwig Berger
- Sound DesignLudwig Berger
- MusicLudwig Berger
