Suneil Sanzgiri
Suneil SANZGIRI is an artist, researcher, filmmaker, and video journalist working to understand how systems of oppression are informed and reinforced by trauma, history, and memory. His work spans experimental video, animations, essays, and installations, and span questions of identity, heritage, culture and diaspora in relationship to structural violence. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017, and was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City. He has participated in several programs at Union Docs in New York, and exhibited in Mexico City, Brazil, Czech Republic, New York, Baltimore, Cambridge, British Columbia, and Gaza.
Filmography
(all short) At the Top of Grasshopper’s Hill (2017), The Reunion (2019), At Home But Not At Home (2019), An Impossible Address (2025).
More info: Suneil Sanzgiri
Suneil Sanzgiri at IFFR
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An Impossible Address
Suneil Sanzgiri | 39' | USA | International premiere
A personal essay examining the life of the revolutionary Sita Valles and the solidarity between India and Africa against the Portuguese empire. -
Golden Jubilee
Suneil Sanzgiri | 19' | USA | None
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Suneil Sanzgiri | 17' | USA | International premiere
In a search for solidarity in sounds and colours, Sanzgiri traces lines of ancestral memory, poetry and history from his birth. -
At Home But Not at Home
Suneil Sanzgiri | 11' | India | World premiere
A personal exploration of identity, liberation and the diaspora from the shores of Goa to Mozambique and Angola.