Nina Sabnani
Nina SABNANI (1956, India) is an animation filmmaker, illustrator and educator. Known for her collaborative projects with diverse craft and storytelling communities, she explores oral histories, textile traditions and image-making practices through animation and visual narrative. She graduated in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, and has since become a key figure in Indian independent animation and research-based storytelling.
Filmography
(selection, all shorts) Drawing! Drawing! (1984), Shubh Vivah (1987), A Summer Story (1988), Badhte Kadam (1989–90), All About Nothing (1990), One Day in Fatehpur Sikri (1994), Patents for Progress (2005), Mukund and Riaz (2009), The Makers of Tales (2009), Tanko bole chhe/The Stitches Speak (2011), Baat Wahi Hai/It’s the Same Story (2012), Bemata (2013), Thank You Many Times (2016), Hum Chitra Banate Hain/We Make Images (2016)
Nina Sabnani at IFFR
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The Stitches Speak
Nina Sabnani | 12' | India | No premiere
An animated documentary about a community of artists who use Suf embroidery to tell their tales. -
The Stitches Speak
Nina Sabnani | 12' | India | World premiere
Extraordinary textile animation about the tough life of the people who embroidered it. Gorgeously animated embroidery stitches in an utterly sincere p