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.
Ashwani's passion to save wild leopards brings him close to White Tail, the mother leopard of Shimla. He films her with his rudimentary camera and screens his films in the villages around Shimla. However, his journey also brings him face to face with some heart breaking happenings; occurring as a result of human-leopard conflict.
Lakhpat Singh Rawat is the official shooter of the Uttarakhand Forest department, having killed over 50 leopards that were perceived to be man eaters. While he feels happy to save the children and adult victims from the marauding leopards, he is also uneasy about his role in brutally eliminating these beautiful, lethal, slender and spotted beasts!
This probing documentary navigates the uncharted hill territories of Shimla and Uttarakhand, trying to get into the psyches of humans and leopards. Is there any solution to this critical conflict that has been raging for over a century?
- Year2019
- Runtime52 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryIndia
- PremiereYes
- DirectorSohail H. Jafri, Shabnam Jafri
- ScreenwriterSohail Jafri, Vineeja
- ProducerFilms Division
- FilmmakerSohail Jafri, Shabnam Jafri
- CinematographerAnu M, Anup Singh, Rakesh Bhilare, Sohail Jafri
- EditorRitu Basetia, Neeraj Kumar
- MusicVarad Khare
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.
Ashwani's passion to save wild leopards brings him close to White Tail, the mother leopard of Shimla. He films her with his rudimentary camera and screens his films in the villages around Shimla. However, his journey also brings him face to face with some heart breaking happenings; occurring as a result of human-leopard conflict.
Lakhpat Singh Rawat is the official shooter of the Uttarakhand Forest department, having killed over 50 leopards that were perceived to be man eaters. While he feels happy to save the children and adult victims from the marauding leopards, he is also uneasy about his role in brutally eliminating these beautiful, lethal, slender and spotted beasts!
This probing documentary navigates the uncharted hill territories of Shimla and Uttarakhand, trying to get into the psyches of humans and leopards. Is there any solution to this critical conflict that has been raging for over a century?
- Year2019
- Runtime52 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryIndia
- PremiereYes
- DirectorSohail H. Jafri, Shabnam Jafri
- ScreenwriterSohail Jafri, Vineeja
- ProducerFilms Division
- FilmmakerSohail Jafri, Shabnam Jafri
- CinematographerAnu M, Anup Singh, Rakesh Bhilare, Sohail Jafri
- EditorRitu Basetia, Neeraj Kumar
- MusicVarad Khare
