Summary:
Poets of the Past has already been screened in universities in Basel and Berlin, before its trip to the IDSFFK. A student from the first film, Ali Saifuddin, is now a youth icon, with his songs of protest and pain. The unrest that would blind or kill many a youth was still months away. “Though all of them chose art, and stayed away from violent resistance, the unrest did have its emotional impact on them. Now, a year later, Fazil is back at the festival with a new film, which takes off from where the first film ended..