Farming the Revolution

105 min/India/France/Norway/2024

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Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the Indian government’s then newly enacted farm laws during the COVID lockdown. Over half a million protesters gathered – men and women from all generations, religions, classes and castes – and reinvented co-existence at massive protest sites that burgeoned on the borders of Delhi. The film invites us to experience the everyday textures and indomitable spirit of this historic farmers’ movement – until, finally, victory!

 

Director: Nishtha Jain
Co-Director & DOP: Akash Basumatari 

Location Sound: Lohit Bhalla
Writers: Nishtha Jain, Deborah Matzner, Valérie Montmartin
Editor: Giles Gardner, Nishtha Jain, Anand Gautam
Music Composer: Florencia Di Concilio (Published by LDM Editions)
Sound Designer: Niraj Gera Colourist & Graphics: Tom Chr. Lilletvedt
Producers: Nishtha Jain (Raintree Films, India), Valérie Montmartin (Little Big Story) 

Co-Producer: Torstein Grude (Piraya Film) 

Associate Producers: Raphaël Pelissou, Oddleiv Vik 

In co-production with ARTE France and Al Jazeera
Poster design: Anirban Ghosh