Safar – The Journey

Yash Pal Suri arrived in Britain in the mid sixties as a young doctor, hoping to gain further qualifications and return home to India a few years later. A few years however turned into many. Uniquely, he meticulously documented his experiences of emigration over four decades in the form of Super 8 movies which he would send to his relatives back in India. These movies were accompanied by audio commentaries in which he would record his changing thoughts and observations about life abroad. Safar is based on this «cine-letter» exchange between Yash and his relatives in India.