Feature-Length Documentary | With Nitin Bathla | 67’ | 2020 | CH, IN
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.
* Nominated for the Main Competition, London Arch Film Fest 2021
* Nominated for the Beyond the Screen Competition, DocAviv 2021
* Winner SAH 2022 Film and Video Award
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.
* Nominated for the Main Competition, London Arch Film Fest 2021
* Nominated for the Beyond the Screen Competition, DocAviv 2021
* Winner SAH 2022 Film and Video Award
Technical Information 2:39:1, 70’, DCP, Colour, India, Switzerland, Germany
Directed, Written and Produced Nitin Bathla | Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou With Support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office | Andromeda Film AG | ETH Zürich
Cinematography and Sound Recording Nitin Bathla
Editing Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
Original Music, Sound Design and Mixing Ludwig Berger
Post-Production Patrick Lindenmaier | Davide Legittimo | Andromeda Film AG
Graphic and Title Design Claudia Sinatra | Metaxia Markaki
Directed, Written and Produced Nitin Bathla | Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou With Support from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office | Andromeda Film AG | ETH Zürich
Cinematography and Sound Recording Nitin Bathla
Editing Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
Original Music, Sound Design and Mixing Ludwig Berger
Post-Production Patrick Lindenmaier | Davide Legittimo | Andromeda Film AG
Graphic and Title Design Claudia Sinatra | Metaxia Markaki
Screenings
2021 Arch Film Fest London, London, UK
2021 DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival
2021 Aarhus Architecture Film Festival
2021 Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival
2021 All Living Things Environmental FF
2021 Dharamshala International Film Festival
2021 EATSA Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
2022 Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, Germany
2022 SAH Conference, Pittsburgh, USA
2021 Arch Film Fest London, London, UK
2021 DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival
2021 Aarhus Architecture Film Festival
2021 Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival
2021 All Living Things Environmental FF
2021 Dharamshala International Film Festival
2021 EATSA Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
2022 Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, Germany
2022 SAH Conference, Pittsburgh, USA