Sultana's Dream
2022
Synopsis
An elderly woman based in contemporary Calcutta faces her hopes and shattered dreams. Flashbacks appear of various women’s experiences during Partition, including forced religious conversion, abuse, and abduction.
Editorial
Inspired by a feminist classic of Bengali literature, this decades-spanning animated short looks back on the violence inflicted on women following the partition of India. Beautiful and achingly fragile, a broken string of pearls stands for the dreams that were broken in the name of nationalism.
