Aliya Z S, Fatima Rahman, Isha Singh, Minha Fathima, Shreya Mishra
A Forgotten Summer
On Ageing, Loss, Love and Longing
Year:
2023
Length:
24 min
Country:
India
Language:
English/Hindi
Director:
Aliya Z S, Fatima Rahman, Isha Singh, Minha Fathima, Shreya Mishra
SYNOPSIS
Living at an elder care facility called Panchvati in Delhi, Uttama Rashk, a former Hindustan Times correspondent and proofreader of Indira Gandhi’s speeches, suffers from Alzheimer’s. The film is an intimate sketch of her life, a delicate attempt to touch upon the elusive nature of memory and the challenges of remembering. Capturing Rashk’s deep reminiscences and lighthearted moments with her sister, Gautami Uttam and caretaker, Sarita; the film deals with aging, compassionate longing, love, and loss.
about the directors
The directors of this film, Fatima, Minha, Isha, Aliya, and Shreya are recent graduates from India’s eminent Film Institute, AJK MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia. Fatima has a master’s in History and she had this fascination of knitting the idea of history and memories together. Having witnessed her grandfather suffer from Alzheimer’s, she proposed to further direct our film towards the complicated relationship, an Alzheimer’s patient shares with their past. The vision was propelled by other team members Aliya- now a full-time editing student at FTII Pune; Minha Fathima- a young girl from Kerala and now a Production Assistant at a prominent production house in Delhi; Isha- a writer, and camera person, and a hobby dancer; Shreya- a Physics graduate before entering films, and now a Creative Producer at a production house in Delhi.
