Enmeshed in a crisscross of time zones and countries, it is right before a flight to Amsterdam when we manage to get on a call with city-based director Nihar Palwe and music composer Adith Anande. Fresh from the screening of their film, The Storm, The Calm, The Madness, The Magic at the Cannes Film Festival and a world premiere at the British Film Institute (BFI) Imax, the group is now embarking on a well-deserved, leisurely vacation in European cities.

“It has been quite a journey for all of us. When we got to know about the selection, all of us were equally excited and nervous to see the film for the first time,” Palwe tells us as he explains how the three-minute-long flick is one of the films selected in the top eight of Straight 8, a UK-based filmmaking event where people from across the globe submit films shot entirely on a single Super 8mm cartridge. “Ours is the first Indian film to be slotted in the top eight in 25 years since the event’s inception,” the hint of pride in the director’s voice is palpable, and rightly so. To imagine a film being shot without post-production and a blind composition of the soundtrack, one probably needs to travel back to the era of silent filmmaking.

The entire film has been shot with a Zenit Quarz 1x8S-2 Super 8 camera