Syed Mehdi Jahan

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Syed Mehdi Jahan is a filmmaker and a teacher in Guwahati, Assam. Syed has produced, directed, and written many short stories, for which he has been appreciated nationally and internationally. Syed’s first debut short film was Jyoti and Joymoti, released in 2018. The short film shows the crucial events of Assamese culture and political history. Jy and Joymoti was played at Mumbai International Film Festival and even won an award. Most of Syed’s works are short films which mostly are family stories, historical events, and folktales. Another of Syed’s short films is He Used to Bring Me Apples (2020), which features his mother as Ayesha, and Ayesha’s husband is played by Syed’s father.

Along with these, Syed also made other short films, including, Light Matter/s (2017), The Home My Mother Never Found (2021), Hands of the Future (2022), A Letter the Fire Spared (2022), Do You Remember Our Last Spring?(2022), What Would Have Been There Had There Been Nothing?(2023), and many more. His films have been screened and have been played on many occasionsat national and international levels. Those include, The Millennium Workshop in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Filmadrid, and Bogoshorts.

His short films have also been played at Bogota Short Film Festival, Muta Festival in Peru, Ribalta Experimental Film Festival in Kerala, India. Apart with filmmaking, Syed has also worked as a teacher at many universities, where he taught the students art behind filmmaking, direction, and screenwriting. These universities that he taught at includes, Guwahati University, Seamedu Media School, Pune, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, etc.