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THE PATHAN SISTERS

by Eléonore Boissinot

SYNOPSIS

Gujarat, India. Sofia and Suzain are two teenage sisters brought up by their father and their grandmother in an outlying locality of Ahmedabad. They were too young to remember, but 20 years ago, they barely escaped the deadly 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogroms. As years go by, deadly communal tensions resurface all over the country.

DETAILS

76 mins

2023

France

Hindi, Urdu

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CLIP

CREDITS

Director & Writer: Eléonore Boissinot

Producer: Claire Babany

DOP: Cédric Dupire, Eléonore Boissinot, Aniket Deore

Sound: Eléonore Boissinot

Editor: Laureline Delom, Cédric Dupire, Perrine Bekaert

Assistant director: Preeti Pareek Chaudhary

Assistant editor: Thomas Laufer

Original music: Bertrand Wolff

Sound editing: Pali Meursault

BIOGRAPHY

DIRECTOR - ELÉONORE BOISSINOT

French director and producer of documentaries based in Marseille. Trained in social sciences at the Sorbonne, Paris Nanterre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and in documentary direction at Les Ateliers Varan, Eléonore Boissinot first assisted researchers in their fields in Lebanon and India. She co-founded Dryades Films with Claire Babany, and they have since then produced a number of award-winning documentaries. Eléonore learnt Hindi in order to develop THE PATHAN SISTERS, her directorial debut.

SELECT FESTIVALS

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL CRITICS WEEK 2023 - ZONTA CLUB AWARD〡ETATS GÉNÉRAUX DU FILM DOCUMENTAIRE 2023〡CORSICA DOC 2023

PRESS

"Mesmerising... What seems at first a domestic story of teenage frustration evolves into a political rites of passage as the girls come to understand their tragic past and how it was shaped..."
- Business Doc Europa

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