Film Screenings
Nocturnes
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan
Image credits: Metamorphosis Film Junction
An immersive viewing experience of sound and imagery, the film weaves together an intricate and poetic tapestry of our world. In the dense forests of Arunachal Pradesh, ecologist Mansi sets out on a quest to study moths in one of the most vibrant places on earth. She teams up with Bicki, a young man from the indigenous Bugun community, to seek clues about what the future holds for the moths as temperatures rise.
By focusing on a small, ephemeral, nocturnal creature like the moth, Nocturnes seeks to question a human-centric view of the world. The lush forest, throbbing with a vast diversity of life, emerges as a breath-taking character as the film responds to the symphony of sounds and the inherent rhythms of the trees, the wind and the rain. The result is a rare and transformative experience that invites us all to look with more attention and care at the hidden interconnections in nature.
This event is held in conjunction with our ongoing permanent exhibition Beneath the Turning Sky.
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Anirban Dutta
Anirban Dutta is a filmmaker, still photographer and a media educator based in Delhi, India. He set up the film company, Metamorphosis in 2003. He has directed and produced several documentary films and created many photographic essays. His films have travelled to various film festivals, including Sundance, CPH, Busan, IDFA, Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC, MAMI, Festival des 3 continents, New York Short Film Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival, Yamagata, Al Jazeera, and MIFF. He was part of the Eurodoc Training Program for Creative Producing in 2021. He was also part of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2022 with the Nocturnes. The film premiered at Sundance in 2024 and went on to be shown at over 60 festivals worldwide, winning awards at Sundance, Thessaloniki, Mumbai, and others. Flickering Lights, the feature documentary he co-directed and produced, received the Best Cinematography Award at the IDFA International Competition in 2023. His projects have been selected for presentation at various forums, including CPH Forum, Visions du Reel, Sheffield Meetmarket, DMZ, and Docs Port Incheon. Anirban has been a Visiting Artist at the University of Boise, Utah, USA (2009), and at Stanica, Slovakia (2013), and has exhibited at the University of Lima, Peru (2007), in addition to exhibitions in India.
Anupama Srinivasan
Anupama Srinivasan is a filmmaker, film educator and curator based in Delhi, India. She earned her BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and later studied filmmaking at the FTII, 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, MAMI, Busan, Festival des 3 Continents, Sheffield, TIDF, 100 Years of Cinema Centenary Festival, Yamagata, Dokufest Kosovo, FIPA Biarritz, MIFF, and Film Southasia Kathmandu. Flickering Lights, the feature documentary she co-directed, shot, and edited, received the Best Cinematography Award at the IDFA International Competition 2023. Nocturnes, which she co-directed and co-edited, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024, where it received the Special Jury Award for Craft. Anupama is one of the recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award 2025. His work has received support from Sundance, Catapult, Doc Society, IDFA Bertha, Visions Sud Est and other funds. She was the Festival Director of the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival for three years (2013-15), and of the Peace Builders International Film Festival in 2016.
