2026 / 11' / Assamese / India
✦ The World & The Self
My father often spoke of a recurrent dream where the bodies of young men and women who had died during the decades of violence that engulfed Assam transformed into swans, gathering once a year in the courtyard of the house where he grew up to sing a song of despair and hope. He spent his life searching for its lost melody, believing it could heal his wounds. This film is an attempt to let go of the dream my father could not relinquish, to loosen its grip on my own inheritance of grief.
Director(s) : Mehdi Jahan
Producer(s) : Mehdi Jahan
Cinematographer(s) : Sunayana Singh, Mehdi Jahan
Writer(s) : Mehdi Jahan
Editor(s) : Mehdi Jahan
Cast : Syed Manuwar Hussain, Syeda Jebin Hussain Begum
Sound : Mehdi Jahan
Mehdi Jahan is a filmmaker, video artist, and educator from Guwahati, India. His films have been screened and exhibited at several places internationally and nationally, as part of film festivals and exhibitions, including International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Brazil), FILMADRID, and several others. He is the recipient of the Berlin Fellowship 2023 (Film and Media Arts), JUNGE Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
