Shazia Khan, an Indian filmmaker, receives a $5,000 award for her project I Never Left

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In search of a home, a filmmaker traces her way back home, to the beautiful valley of Kashmir In India, that she left by choice, when the Islamic armed rebellion started. Even though it peaked and waned in the 1990s, the conflict in the region is far from over.

People like the mother of three boys Tahira, open their hearts and share their pain, it has been 19 years since Tahira’s husband disappeared, the term for people like her in Srinagar town is half widow. Just like the land of Kashmir, she is stuck in a situation with no clear resolution in sight, a limbo, a waiting. In this time wrap the filmmaker searches for her own answers, why are there places that you will never leave, but neither can live in, is home a place or a mental condition?