The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.
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 kilometres 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 crisscrossed 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
- CountryIndia, Switzerland
- PremiereUK Premiere
- RatingSuitable for all audiences
- DirectorNitin Bathla & Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ScreenwriterNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ProducerNitin Bathla & Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- CinematographerNitin Bathla
- EditorKlearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- Sound DesignLudwig Berger
- MusicLudwig Berger
The festival’s International Film Competition [OPEN CALL] received over 270 submissions from 40 countries worldwide, competing for awards across six different categories.
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 kilometres 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 crisscrossed 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
- CountryIndia, Switzerland
- PremiereUK Premiere
- RatingSuitable for all audiences
- DirectorNitin Bathla & Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ScreenwriterNitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- ProducerNitin Bathla & Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- CinematographerNitin Bathla
- EditorKlearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
- Sound DesignLudwig Berger
- MusicLudwig Berger