Asia Society is delighted to present a film screening and conversation with Oscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name (2017); Howards End (1992); The Delhi Way (1964)). Join us for A Cooler Climate, Mr. Ivory's 2022 film uncovering never-seen-before footage shot during a life-changing trip to Afghanistan.

Film Details: A Cooler Climate 

Written & directed by James Ivory | Co-directed by Giles Gardner | Produced by Bertrand Faivre 

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 75-min

Synopsis:

 In 1960, filmmaker James Ivory made a trip to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary. The film was never completed and the footage stayed in a box unseen for 60 years.
In 2022, aged 94, he decided to revisit this unique material as a means to look back at his younger self and to unravel how this unlikely journey far from his hometown in Oregon helped form the celebrated filmmaker he was to become.

James Ivory 

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. 
For many years, he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic 
as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were 
principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won seven Academy Awards; Ivory himself 
has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one.

Ivory’s directorial work includes A Room with a View (1985), Maurice (1987), Howards End (1992), 
and The Remains of the Day (1993). For his work on Call Me by Your Name (2017), which he wrote and 
produced, Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards, the British Academy 
of Film and Television Arts, the Writers Guild of America, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the 
Scripter Awards, among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89, Ivory became the 
oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards.