A Cooler Climate
An essay on history, memory and gay desire developed from the materials of an unfinished documentary.
75'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
An Indian princess in self-exile celebrates her birthday with her father’s former tutor, watching documentaries that show the beauty of her native country in the time prior to independence. A personal favourite of James Ivory, who seems to have tailored his own film autobiography some time after this gem.
– Olaf Möller
Programmed alongside: A Cooler Climate
IFFR 2023
An essay on history, memory and gay desire developed from the materials of an unfinished documentary.
75'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Programme IFFR 2023
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeA gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
10'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.
175'
India
IFFR 2023
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023