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Moonless

Chandraheen
Adheep Das
International Competition Animated Film 2023
Animated Film
India
2023
24 minutes
Hindi
Subtitles: 
English

On a moonless night, a cheeky bull escapes from his herd. He dashes through fields and over hills until he finally stops at a pond, where a piece of paper on which a poem is emerging attaches itself to him. The bull shakes off the paper and sneaks into town, where he watches people at their nocturnal business. He witnesses a police investigation, listens in on two truck drivers and observes the theft of a bus stop shelter. All these experiences are accompanied by the narrator’s poetic comments and culminate in a hilarious singing sequence, complete with a dance and performance number by the bull.

Meanwhile, the people in the town are in an uproar about the undetectable moon. They search, discuss and protest. But the moon stays missing – until the bull transforms himself at the end of his journey.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Adheep Das
Script
Avanti Basargekar
Editor
Adheep Das
Producer
Tamali Bhattacharya
Sound
Shivpal Singh Kang
Sound Design
Shivpal Singh Kang
Score
Shivpal Singh Kang
Animation
Adheep Das
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award