| TITLE OF THE FILM | In The Wake Of Remembering |
| DIRECTED BY | Sara Saini |
| LANGUAGE | English, Punjabi (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COUNTRY | India, UK |
| DURATION | 19 minutes |
| SPECIAL NOTE | Kolkata Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW & CAST
| WRITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY | Sara Saini |
| EDITING | Piotr Zuchniewicz |
| LOCATION SOUND | Sara Saini, Domantas Jakubauskas |
| SOUND DESIGN & MIXING | Anita Xu |
| MUSIC | Katie Ellwood |
| PRINCIPAL CAST | Sarbjit Johal, Navtej Purewal, Amrit Wilson |
ABOUT THE FILM
Three women unearth and reflect on their memories of witnessing and supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers’ resistance movement that Punjabi women led in Smethwick, Birmingham. From within their memories, another voice emerges—reflecting on and bringing the women’s experiences from the street to the domestic and personal. Together, the voices attempt to reconstruct the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women against the political and social backdrop of the UK.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Sara Saini is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and researcher from Delhi, currently based in London. Her work explores the intersections of migration, memory, and resistance, weaving together oral histories and archival material to reflect on lived experiences across gender, race, caste and class. Sara has worked across various roles in filmmaking, from directing and producing to editing and research, collaborating with grassroots organisations, artists, and curators.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“I wanted the film to not simply be a retelling of the story of Burnsall Strike, but a deliberation on the ways that made the strike possible, the economic and political limitations that the strikers were working within and a window into understanding a particular kind of racism that was reserved for female South Asian and Black workers in the workplace, and disappointingly, within the worker’s unions as well.”
