Saturday, April 22, 6:30pm

I FOR INDIA
UK-Germany-Italy /2005/70 min/Beta SP/Documentary

Director: Sandhya Suri
Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina
Screenwriter: Sandhya Suri
Cinematographers: Sandhya Suri, Lars Lenski, Yash Pal Suri
Editors: Cinzia Baldessari, Brian Tagg  

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India to pursue his medical career in England with the aim of one day returning to practice in his homeland. Spurred by inadequate long distance telephone service, he purchased two Super-8 film cameras, two projectors and two reel-to-reel recorders and sent one set to his parents back home. Over the next forty years Yash shared the idiosyncrasies of his life abroad with his parents while they shared the comforting mundanity of home - each holding firmly to the dream of their imminent reunion.

In her first feature length documentary, filmmaker Sandhya Suri reveals a bittersweet personal archive of immigration, identity and belonging through the eyes of one South Asian family and their two movie cameras.

Hindi and English (English subtitles)  

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