Nocturnes
Feature length film Completed 2024
Director
Anirban Dutta
Director
Anupama Srinivasan
Doc Society helped with
Development
Production
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, a young woman scientist studies moths. A young man rediscovers the forest he has grown up with. The film follows their fascinating journey into the secret world of moths, inviting us to witness their beauty, their fragility in the face of rising temperatures and our own hidden connection with them.
Crew
If you’re in the right headspace, the whole thing is quite entrancing. Still, it’s also an extremely rarefied sort of entertainment; sparse and precise like Mungee herself.
Guardian
Dec. 3, 2024
A sound-and-light show presented as a straight documentary, but ultimately embracing that straightness.
RogerEbert.com
Oct. 25, 2024
It’s in transporting viewers into the heart of this jungle, where the moths calibrate the ecosystem, that Nocturnes most its most compelling case for protecting these exquisite creatures and our planet.
The Hollywood Reporter
Oct. 18, 2024
Dutta and Srinivasan’s understated approach shows research and nature in action without pretending to make a forest give up its secrets.
New York Times
Oct. 17, 2024
The film is uplifting in its understated optimism that understanding of the natural world driven by technology might accompany understanding of the divine.
Slant Magazine
Oct. 15, 2024
Put it this way: If audiences don’t walk out of Nocturnes immediately googling “hawk moths,” they’ve simply been too temporarily dazzled to re-enter a world of fast-paced technology. That’s a good thing.
indieWire
Jan. 22, 2024
Nocturnes, an insightful documentary that hopes to whisper the poetry of such creatures to its audience, is an educational and compelling look at these curious insects.
Film Inquiry
Jan. 29, 2024
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