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Where the Yellow Bird Lives is a short film about memory, displacement, and the longing for a home that survives only in fragments of recollection.
At its centre is an elderly woman who was forced to leave her ancestral village in East Pakistan during Partition. Though she has spent most of her life in Kolkata, thememories of the village she left behind continue to inhabit her inner world. As her health declines and travel becomes impossible, her desire to return grows ever more urgent.
Moved by her mother’s stories, her daughter – a filmmaker – recreates the landscapes, textures, and traces of a remembered childhood. Joined by her own daughter, she transforms these memories into a cinematic journey, weaving together personal
history, imagination, and the fragile geography of remembrance.
In an intimate final act, the octogenarian experiences the film through virtual reality, allowing her to revisit a homeland she has not seen in decades. Guided by the image of a yellow bird that inhabits her memories, she embarks on a final journey across borders of time, place, and memory.
Blending personal history with immersive storytelling, Where the Yellow Bird Lives explores the ways stories, images, and new technologies can preserve what history, migration, and time threaten to erase.
Directed by Prithwiraj Choudhury (India)