‘The Yesterday’
The Yesterday Official Poster - Festival Release after January 1, 2022 (May 5, 2022)
BEST FEMALE ACTOR NOMINATIONS
1. WINNER - Best Actress - 21st Edition November 2023 - New York, USA
2. Official Selection - BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS 2023 - Black Tie Amsterdam Event Location: ITA Theater - Leidseplein 26, 1017 PT Amsterdam, Netherlands
3. Winner - BEST ACTRESS - Cannes World Film Festival, December, 2022 - Cannes, FRANCE
Official Selection - Best Actress Nominee - 2023, Cannes, FRANCE
Leads
Benita von Sass as ‘Josephine’ (Canadian actress The Yesterday (2022); Conversations Around A Dinner Table Yesterday (2021)
alongside
Manan Joshi as ‘The Shopkeeper’ (Indian Mumbai actor Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey (2022); The Yesterday (2022); Shubh Laabh Aapkey Ghar Mein (2021); 'Rocky' in Gudden Temse Na Ho Payega soap opera)
Filmed in October, 2020;
Post-Production throughout 2021;
Festival Release after January 1, 2022 - Final on May 5, 2022
THE YESTERDAY
A FILM ABOUT LONELINESS, ABOUT SEEKING THE DEEPER HUMANITY WITHIN THE HUMAN; ABOUT AWAKENING REAL LOVE AND FULFILLMENT BENEATH APPEARANCES, CONVENTION AND FORM.
A disillusioned successful businesswoman struggling to find meaning in her privileged life, finds unexpected love in a forbidden affair.
This film speaks to anyone who has questioned what really matters in life… money, stature, enjoyment at all cost? Hard work, loyalty, family?
Or perhaps what is truly enviable lies much deeper …
SEPTIMIUS AWARDS AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS SEPT 25-26, 2023
Official Selection - BEST AMERICAN ACTRESS - Black Tie Amsterdam Event
KALAKARI FILM FESTIVAL - WOMEN FILMMAKERS FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE
CANNES WORLD FILM FESTIVAL - DEC 2022 WINNER BEST ACTRESS IN A SHORT FILM
This story is about loneliness, about seeking the deeper humanity within the human; about awakening real love and fulfillment beneath appearances, convention and custom.
Two foreigners in London from differing backgrounds and ages find themselves in a love neither could have imagined. One is a young shopkeeper from India awaiting the arrival of his wife by arranged marriage; the other a mature, principled businesswoman from America.
The story is Josephine’s. A foreigner in London, she has struggled to find lasting contentment and joy. She has fought her way to worldly success, but something has kept her searching for a pure, indisputable inner fulfillment. Wherever she turns her dismay with the world sees only exploitation and abuse.
The young Shopkeeper is likewise a foreigner. Educated and starting his life journey, he has arrived to seek a better life in England for himself and soon to be young bride. Working long hours tending a store, he follows all rules until he finds himself apprehended by love.
Neither could have known the unexpected fulfillment, realization and heartbreak to come.
I hope this film inspires a conversation about the nature of love, our experience of reality, imagination and time, and the intricate interconnectedness of all influences - seemingly good and bad.
ACTING: THE YESTERDAY - GALLERY
