A Letter to Home
Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings , as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.
- Year: 2019
- Country: India
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Film and Television Institute of India
- Keyword: painful memories, slow cinema
- Director: Mukul Haloi
- Cast: Nilim Chetia, Rahul Rabha, Akhil Gogoi, Kalpana Phukan, Urmila Mahanta, Ishana Bhardwaz
