Director: Shreyas Milind Mandhare
Country: India
Language: Marathi | Hindi |English
Year: 2025
Run Time: 13 mins
Stories Behind Photographs Chosen to Remember Departed Loved Ones
The Last Photo is a documentary that journeys through Indian households and the emotional yet absurd stories behind the photographs chosen to remember loved ones after their passing. What begins as a simple framed portrait slowly unfolds into a reflection on memory, grief, family traditions, and the changing relationship between people and photography. The film contrasts generations that lived with only a handful of photographs to today’s world of endless digital images, filters, and AI manipulation. Through intimate conversations and personal archives, The Last Photo questions who gets to decide the image that outlives us.
Director:
Shreyas Mandhare is a filmmaker and screenwriter from Pune, India, with over six years of experience in feature films and television. He graduated from the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), specialising in Direction, and holds a Master’s degree in Video Production from Pune University. He began his career as an assistant director on Marathi, Gujarati and Hindi feature films, and also worked for a Sony TV show. While studying at FTII, he wrote and directed short films We Heard the World Looks Beautiful and The Last Photo. His films have been selected and screened at festivals such as Film Southasia, MIFF, Kos Minar, SiGNS FFl, Arunachal Film Festival and Drishyam FF.
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