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Architects : RAD+ar

Creative Director : Rheza Eka Nugraha
Storyteller : Silvia Wulandari

Visual Artist & Art Director : Adri Kusuma, Christopher Indra Bintang Yuwono

NEST tells the story of a forest chapel through the eyes — and the voice — of the birds who were there first. Narrated entirely as a song sung from the bird's perspective, the film unfolds in the early morning light, following the emotional arc of a bird watching strangers arrive with stone and wood, fearing the worst — and discovering that what they built was never meant to replace the trees. The chapel rises without cutting a single trunk. Every tree, every branch, every root is woven into the architecture itself, not as compromise but as intention. What begins as anxiety slowly becomes curiosity, then wonder, then full flight between branches and beams with no boundary between the two.

The sung narration shifts from a lone, uncertain voice in the opening verses to layered harmonies and a soaring wordless chorus at the climax — mirroring the bird's journey from fear to freedom. The film is an argument made not in words but in melody, movement, and light: that architecture and nature don't have to be opposites. That building with reverence means listening to the site before drawing a single line.

By the final frame — a single bird perched in the distance, watching the chapel glow in the morning sun, the song reduced to a whisper — the question is no longer whether the forest survived the architecture. The question is whether you can still tell where one ends and the other begins.