Mehdi Jahan

Mehdi Jahan is a filmmaker, video artist, and film pedagogue 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), The Millennium Workshop ( New York ), Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Brazil), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, FILMADRID, Bogoshorts ( Bogota Short Film Festival), Camara Lucida – Encuentros Cinematograficos ( Cuenca, Ecuador ), MUTA Festival ( Peru ), Pan-Cinema Experimental – Curitiba International Experimental Film Festival (Curitiba, Brazil), Ribalta Experimental Film Festival ( Vignola, Italy ), Simultan Festival (Timisoara, Romania ), Signs Film Festival ( Kerala, India ), etc. He is the recipient of the Berlin Fellowship 2023 (Film and Media Arts), JUNGE Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin. The first retrospective of films was held at The Millenium Film Workshop, New York, 2023. It was curated by filmmaker and curator, Alex Faoro. He taught film studies, direction, and screenwriting at several institutes over the years, including Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata, Seamedu Media School, Pune, Mass Communication Department of Guwahati University, etc.