The Last Adieu

Director: Shabnam Sukhdev
India | English, Hindi
2013 | 90min | Colour
Subtitles: English

Saturday, Nov 1 TIPA, 1:15 PM

Having the need to resolve the unfinished relationship with her father who had died suddenly when she was only fourteen, Shabnam decides to confront her mother and talk  to all the people who had known him.  She is eager to fill the holes in her sketchy memory only to find out that  he had always been there  with her and influenced her at every stage in her life without her knowing it.

After thirty years she is now ready to claim her father as she discovers his significance in her life.

Shabnam Sukhdev

Alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Shabnam Sukhdev has worked in the Mumbai film and television industry in the capacity of writer, director and producer of television shorts and serials for over a decade.  She migrated to Canada where she resurrected her identity as an independent artist with the support of provincial funding. Driven by a strong social conscience, she volunteered a lot of her time towards teaching media courses in film cooperatives and was invited to be on the programming committee of the Global Visions Documentary Film Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. Her goal today is to share her skills and experience with committed media students and help them develop aesthetic sensitivity towards the audio visual medium, as also to pursue her dream of making films exploring personal themes of identity, longing and reconciliation. According to Shabnam, “film is personal”, and The Last Adieu is her first full length feature documentary in that direction.

Credits

Director: Shabnam Sukhdev
Screenwriter: Shabnam Sukhdev
Cinematographer: Ashwin Shukla
Editor: Jabeen Merchant
Music: Venkatesh Shastri
Production Company: Films Division

Festival Appearances & Awards

Stuttgart Indian Film Festival, 2014
International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala, 2014
National Award for Best Biographical Reconstruction, 2013