Kashmiri film makes it to Sundance film festival

February 01, 2012 17:46

Kashmiri film Valley of Saints has won two awards so far -- World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic and is co-winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Its next port of call, the Sundance film festival, becoming in the process the first Kashmiri film to make it to a prestigious international festival, says the Daily Mail, UK.

'Boatman Gulzar Ahmed and translator Afzal Sofi had no idea what it would mean when they were told that their film Valley of Saints was selected for the Sundance Film Festival last month... The film, directed by Musa Syeed, a New Yorker of Kashmiri origin, narrates the story of a young boatman who develops an unlikely relationship with an environmentalist during a violent summer in the Valley,' it says.

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