A film by James Ivory, co-directed by Giles Gardner
In 1960, filmmaker James Ivory made a trip to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary. The film was never completed and the footage stayed in a box unseen for 60 years. In 2022, aged 94, he decided to revisit this unique material as a means to look back at his younger self and to unravel how this unlikely journey far from his hometown in Oregon helped form the celebrated filmmaker he was to become.
2022 – United Kingdom – English – 72 minutes
James Ivory, winner of the 2022 Rome Film Fest Lifetime Achievement Award
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