Autobiography of a Princess
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2023
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
COMBINED PROGRAMME:
Two films by James Ivory, The Autobiography of a Princess was perhaps the model for A Cooler Climate.
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.
In 1960, James Ivory visited Afghanistan to make a documentary – which was never finished. The materials of that project form the backbone for this look at Ivory's upbringing and first steps in cinema: an essay on history, memory and the vanities of civilisation-building, not to mention desire.
Combined Programme
IFFR 2023
Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!
58'
United Kingdom
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.
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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