| TITLE OF THE FILM | Farming The Revolution (Inquilab Di Kheti) |
| DIRECTED BY | Nishtha Jain |
| LANGUAGE | Hindi, Panjabi (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COUNTRY | India, France, Norway |
| DURATION | 105 minutes |
| SPECIAL NOTE | Kolkata Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW
| CO-DIRECTION & CINEMATOGRAPHY | Akash Basumatari |
| WRITING | Nishtha Jain, Deborah Matzner, Valerie Montmartin |
| EDITING | Giles Gardner, Nishtha Jain, Anand Gautam |
| LOCATION SOUND | Lohit Bhalla |
| SOUND DESIGN | Niraj Gera |
| SOUND MIX | Kotesh Siram |
| MUSIC | Florencia Di Concilio |
ABOUT THE FILM
‘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!
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Nishtha Jain is a leading filmmaker from India, best known for her critically-acclaimed films – ‘The Golden Thread’ (2022), ‘Gulabi Gang’ (2012), ‘Lakshmi and Me’ (2007). Her latest – ‘Farming the Revolution’ (2024) premiered at Hot Docs and won the Best International Documentary Award and is being screened widely. Nishtha’s films have been screened at over 250 film festivals winning numerous international awards. She has served as a juror at IDFA, Zurich, TIDF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Over a period of thirteen months, my team and I were witness to the exceptional bravery of the protesting farmers. Surrounded by police barricades, the farmers create a zone – a zone of possibilities, a zone of freedom within which the normal laws of the police state don’t apply. It becomes a place of optimism, hope, and action where we see how roots in faith and revolutionary thinking may coexist.”
