Suffering through the worst of the violence, and surviving to tell the tale. Memorializing the people and circumstances that brought us into our present.
Content warning: Discussion and depictions of colonial violence (Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)), Discussion and graphic recreations of ethnic cleansing (Zanatany, When Soulless Shrouds Whisper)
Accessibility: Closed captions available
Thank you to our screening partner: Twelve Gates Arts
Watch the Q&A conversation with Suneil Sanzgiri, director of Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) here.
Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to prevent Vasco de Gama from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations in India and Africa.
Watch the Q&A conversation here.
- Runtime35 minutes
- LanguageKonkani, English
- CountryUnited States, India
- PremierePhiladelphia
- AwardsBest Experimental Film Nominee
- Social Media
- DirectorSuneil Sanzgiri
- ScreenwriterSham-e-Ali Nayeem
- ProducerSuneil Sanzgiri
- CastTilya Fernandes
- CinematographerKrish Makhija, Bernardo Infante
- EditorSuneil Sanzgiri
- AnimatorSuneil Sanzgiri and Steve Cossman
- ComposerAmirtha Kidambi and Booker Stardrum
- Sound DesignSuneil Sanzgiri
Suffering through the worst of the violence, and surviving to tell the tale. Memorializing the people and circumstances that brought us into our present.
Content warning: Discussion and depictions of colonial violence (Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)), Discussion and graphic recreations of ethnic cleansing (Zanatany, When Soulless Shrouds Whisper)
Accessibility: Closed captions available
Thank you to our screening partner: Twelve Gates Arts
Watch the Q&A conversation with Suneil Sanzgiri, director of Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) here.
Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to prevent Vasco de Gama from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations in India and Africa.
Watch the Q&A conversation here.
- Runtime35 minutes
- LanguageKonkani, English
- CountryUnited States, India
- PremierePhiladelphia
- AwardsBest Experimental Film Nominee
- Social Media
- DirectorSuneil Sanzgiri
- ScreenwriterSham-e-Ali Nayeem
- ProducerSuneil Sanzgiri
- CastTilya Fernandes
- CinematographerKrish Makhija, Bernardo Infante
- EditorSuneil Sanzgiri
- AnimatorSuneil Sanzgiri and Steve Cossman
- ComposerAmirtha Kidambi and Booker Stardrum
- Sound DesignSuneil Sanzgiri