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Focus South Asia

In Flanders Fields

Flanders Di Zameen Vich

Belgium, India

Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Urdu

2024

16 mins

India Premiere

Festival History

Vision du Réel | ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival

Focus South Asia

In Flanders Fields

Flanders Di Zameen Vich

Belgium, India

Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Urdu

2024

16 mins

India Premiere

Festival History

Vision du Réel | ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival

This experimental documentary film has fragments of archival letters, images, sounds, and songs of the Indian soldiers in a war-ridden landscape of Europe. While visiting Ypres, the director learnt that 1.4 million Indians were conscripted by the British to fight in Flanders Fields during the First World War. By using audio recordings, letters, songs, and archives, he brings his anonymous ancestors back to life, like ghosts inlaid in an immovable winter landscape.

This film is part of Focus South Asia Package - 2

22 October 2024

Juhu PVR Dynamix Mall, Juhu - Audi 2

11:00 AM

24 October 2024

Juhu PVR Dynamix Mall, Juhu - Audi 4

10:15 AM

Credits

Writer

Sachin

Director of Photography

Sachin

Editor

Sachin

Sound Designer

Aurelian Lebourg

Producer/s

Sachin

Production Company/ies

Tagga collective

Contact


Rights Holder

Sachin

contact.sachin22@gmail.com


Director

Sachin

Sachin is a Rajasthan-based filmmaker who employs lens-based art to comprehend the world around him and express his ideas with an experimental approach. Sachin is a co-founder of the Docustan Cinema Association, which is dedicated to nurturing the practice of documentary filmmaking. He has worked on Towards a Fragmented Anatomy (2019), Remnants of the Past (2021), and The Ballads of the Forest (2022).