Sara SainiProjectsInformation

Sara SainiProjectsInformation

Documentary: In the Wake of RememberingShort Film 19:11UK 2024 
Three women unearth and reflect on their memories of witnessing and supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers' resistance movement that Punjabi women led in Smethwick, Birmingham. From within their memories, another voice emerges as it reflects and brings the women’s experience from the street to the domestic and personal. Together, the voices attempt to reconstruct the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women against the political and social backdrop of the UK.

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Festivals and Screenings
Official Selection, Sheffield Doc Fest, UK 2025
Official Selection, NAFA Film Festival, Skopje 2025
Official Selection, Freiburg Film Forum, Germany 2025
Official Selection, London Indian Film Festival, London 2025
Official Selection, Goa Short Film Festival, India 2024
Official Selection, Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival, Zurich 2025
Official Selection, Kolkata People’s Film Festival, India 2025
Founder’s L’Eclisse Award, Blow Up Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago 2025
Antifa  Film  Fest, Millenium Film, New York

Documentary: A Good Question एक अच्छा सवालShort Film 19:28UK, India 2025 
Migration has reshaped the Doaba region of Punjab (India) leaving homes crowned with colloquial water tank sculptures. Concrete planes, tractors and animals stand as striking emblems of diasporic success. As Davinder and his small team labour over making these symbolic structures, he is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to leave home as well. Through observation, conversation and music, the film ruminates on post colonial desires and identities in the region. 

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Festivals and Screenings
Doc Edge Festival, 2025 (New Zealand)
NCPA x Editions Jojo (Mumbai, India)

Documentary: For a Brief MomentShort Film 12:51UK, 2023 
A bright apartment in London. Abby Cheng moves through the quiet rhythms of her daily life working from home, reheating takeout, taking solitary walks. Beneath the mundanity, uncertainty lingers. Her visa status, fragile and temporary, turns routine tasks into reminders of displacement. In the stillness of her rented flat, in the silence between calls, her thoughts drift to Taiwan. A place both near and distant, a question unanswered.

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Video Essay: Largest in the Smallest04:43 UK, 2023
Reflecting on how trains, despite (or due to) being salient non-places, functioning within the limitations of clock time schedules, prescriptive, prohibitive and informative texts (such as ‘please stand on the right’, ‘no smoking’, ‘next station is..”), enable us - the passengers - to experience time in a non-routinized way for a temporary period, giving us the liberty to let our minds wander to places we otherwise do not have space to in our hurried, structured everyday lives. The film tries to explore how this non-relational time spent in trains, the outward nature of which is often observed to be quite scripted and performed, perhaps gives us the opportunity to open ourselves inwards - allowing for a myriad of thoughts, conflicts, absurdities to enter the stream of our day.

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Exhibited at
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Video Art & Moving Image screening series
Georgian Video Art Archive
Tblisi, Georgia
 

Short Film 16:05Documentary: As the Kite FliesKashmir, 2018
Looking for Azaadi in Srinagar, Kashmir.

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