Nocturnes (2024)
Director: Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Hindi
Country: India, United States
Language: Hindi, English, Bugun with English subtitles
About the film:
World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2024, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award. In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe. Together, they are on an expedition to decode these nocturnal creatures in a remote ecological “hot spot” on the border of India and Bhutan. The result is a deeply immersive film that transports audiences to a rarely-seen place and urges us all to look more closely at the hidden interconnections of the natural world.
“Dazzling. An introspective and captivating documentary. A rich, unexpected experience.”
—Kate Erbland for Indiewire
About the filmmakers:
Anirban Dutta is a filmmaker, still photographer and a media educator based in Delhi, India. He set up his company, Metamorphosis in 2003. He has directed and produced several documentary films and created many photographic essays on diverse topics such as children’s rights, biodiversity, environmental issues, health, and gender and sexuality. His films have traveled to various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Busan, IDFA, Hot Docs, New York Short Film Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, Yamagata, Al Jazeera, and Mumbai International Film Festival.
Anupama Srinivasan is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. She did her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and went on to study filmmaking at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. She has been making documentaries for over two decades, often shooting and editing her own work. Her films have been screened at various film festivals including Sundance, CPH, Hot Docs, IDFA, Thessaloniki, Busan, 100 Years of Cinema Centenary Festival, Yamagata, FIPA Biarritz, MIFF, Film Southasia Kathmandu, ImagineIndia Madrid, Peloponnisos and Kara Filmfest.
Together, Dutta and Srinivasan directed Flickering Lights (2023), the feature documentary, receiving the Best Cinematography Award at IDFA international competition in 2023. A part of the Film Independent’s Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with their latest project Nocturnes, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2024 where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft.
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