Sana Bilgrami’s great-grandfather came to Edinburgh from India to study medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. One hundred years later, and now living in Edinburgh herself, Bilgrami pieces together archival traces and fragments of memory to invoke a story of love and sorrow.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Sana Bilgrami is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She studied film at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, before earning a Masters degree at Edinburgh College of Art when she shot her short film Under my Skin (2001). Bilgrami’s Tree Fellers (2004) was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award for Best Television Documentary. Her films have been screened on BBC Scotland and STV.