Unfinished

Unfinished

Directed by Shabnam Sukhdev

• 37 Min
• Canada
• Documentary
• Short
• Captions, Audio Description

Unfinished is a 38-minute hybrid documentary that questions the notion of Normality at its very core. The film encapsulates the struggles of a young woman’s mental illness as seen through the lens of her mother. Over a series of hospitalizations the mother’s frustrating inquiry to understand and untangle the conundrum of her daughter’s mental health condition unfolds. The filmmaker-mother critically examines home videos filmed by her during her daughter’s first episode that unravels the family’s genetic archive. She fears that her past films may be a foreshadow of their lived experience.