Only the French can think of a selection of cinema about cinema,” says photographer Amit Madheshiya. The Cinema Travelers, shot by him and co-directed and co-edited by researcher Shirley Abraham, will premiere at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in May. It features in a list that is sure to woo cinephiles, Nine Documentaries About Cinema — ‘a way to tell the history of cinema by cinema itself’. “Our film is about microcosms where people don’t travel to cinema; cinema comes to them, rather. It is how cinema was intended; the Lumiere Brothers took their films from city to city,” says Madheshiya, who has awards from World Press Photo and World Photography Awards to his credit.