Saanjh

Sabrina Dhawan | India, USA | 2000 | 20' |

| IFFR 2001

A lower-class baby dies in the middle-class compartment of a train traveling across India. When they find out the train isn’t going to stop all night, the passengers persuade the lone mother to throw her dead child into the River Ganges. Tension increases as the train approaches the river, finally exploding with horrifying consequences. Sabrina Dhawan was born in England and grew up in New Delhi. She worked for a press agency for a while and then started on a film course in New York. Saanjh is her début film

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Film details

Productielanden: India, USA
Jaar: 2000
Festivaleditie: IFFR 2001
Lengte: 20'
Medium/Formaat: 16mm
Taal: Hindi
Première status: European premiere
Director: Sabrina Dhawan
Producer: Sabrina Dhawan
Sales / World rights holder: Sabrina Dhawan
Principal cast: Nandita Das
Screenplay: Sabrina Dhawan

Saanjh

Ook in dit verzamelprogramma

Quiero Morir

Rejected

L’ultimo giorno di Machomask

Madonna with child

Heal Me

Arcade

Outlet

Film details