Synopsis:
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he does on arrival in England is to buy two Super 8 cameras, two projectors and two reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home.
A bitter sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
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Festivals
Sundance Film Festival 2006
Visions du Reel 2006
Asian Festival of First Films 2006
Zagreb Film Festival
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Mumbai International Film Festival
River to River Festival, Italy
It’s All True Film Festival, Brazil
Melbourne International Film Festival
CPH:Dox, Copenhagen
New Zealand International Film Festival
EIDF, Korea
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival
Boston International Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Cleveland International Film Festival
Awards
Best Documentary – Asian Festival of First Films
Best Documentary – Karachi International Film Festival
Best Documentary – Golden Pram, Zagreb Film Festival
Best Documentary – IAAC, New York
Best Documentary – Indian Festival of Los Angeles
Silver Award – Film South Asia
Charles C. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Jury’s Honourable Mention – Mumbai International Film Festival
Audience Award – River to River Festival, Italy
Synopsis:
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he does on arrival in England is to buy two Super 8 cameras, two projectors and two reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home.
A bitter sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.