Indian filmmaker Rahul Jain’s Delhi air pollution documentary Invisible Demons is a part of the brand new sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival on local weather points.
The new section, titled Cinema for the Climate, will embrace a fiction movie and 6 documentaries specializing in the difficulty of local weather change, the competition introduced on Friday.
Rahul Jain’s Invisible Demons in New Delhi has been described as a “shocking documentary” about air pollution and “invisible demons” that are microscopic particles.
A quick on the competition’s official website learn, “Rahul Jain’s camera tries to breathe as it makes its way through this ecological hell, giving us something to look at and something to think about.”
Rahul Jain, who hails from New Delhi, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.
His first movie, Machines, was a documentary about manufacturing unit life in a big textile mill in Gujarat.
The line-up additionally contains French actor-director Louis Garrel’s function movie The Crusade, a drama about kids who come collectively to guard the planet.
Garrell starred within the movie alongside actors Letitia Casta and Joseph Engel.
The sidebar part accommodates 5 documentaries – Marcher sur Leu (Over the water) by Aisa Maiga (Niger-France), Animals by Cyril Dion (France), I’m So Sorry (France – China) by Zhao Liang, Bada Than Flor Vasseur (France – China). France) by Us and Marie Emiguet (France) by La Panthre des Neiges.
Along with the brand new program, Cannes has introduced an environmental motion plan to cut back waste and cut back the competition’s carbon footprint.
The 74th version of the Cannes International Film Festival shall be held from July 6 to 17.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
