Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Synopsis
Drawing upon a rich repository of images—from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm hand-processing and direct animation techniques—Letter From Your Far-Off Country maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression, linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the filmmaker’s father, and a letter addressed to Prabhakar Sanzgiri, a leader of India’s Communist party and a distant relative of the filmmaker.
Letter From Your Far-Off Country (2020) is a 17 min documentary short film by Suneil Sanzgiri. Drawing upon a rich repository of images—from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiali... Selected for Bolton International Film Festival (2021).
Festival History
- Bolton International Film Festival 2021
- IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2021 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 generic
- Slamdance Film Festival 2021 generic
- New York Film Festival 2020 generic
