Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 21: An animated short film in English, written, directed and produced by Nupur Sandhu from Jammu, was screened in the Bangalore Short Film Festival and got ‘Honourable Jury Mention’.
This animated short film ‘Beautiful Me-Belle Moi’, was earlier released and screened at ‘PleinLaBobine’ Festival De Cinema, Labourboule, France, on May 27, 2018. On demand, it was screened again on May 31, It was one of the films, out of 160, screened during the weeklong long festival.
At the Bangalore Festival, this film was screened after selection from more than 210 entries.
This short film showcases how all our emotions we feel are subjected to branch out from our two significant emotions— Love and Fear. The film revolves around a protagonist who struggles to achieve the acceptance he has always craved for. He is caught amidst a tornado of non acceptance, and hence he always desires to be loved and accepted by his friends. The whirlpool of emotions becomes even deeper because of the bullying and humiliation he faces.
The film progresses towards a resolution when a Serenity Surrender Therapist guides him through this rough patch and helps him to attain the understanding that we are a whole and can only be seen as a ‘complete’ being when we embrace the binary of strength and weakness.
The film gives the message that who we are, is defined by all our aspects (strength- weakness/ negative- positive emotions) and we need to embrace and love ourselves first, to be able to receive the acceptance from others.
Nupur Sandhu, who has produced this film, is a trained Psychologist, Serenity Surrender Therapist and an author. .
She has also given lyrics to the film while Shwetima Jamwal, RJ, is the singer and narrator. Animation and sound have been done by Prashant Singh while the film has been edited at Leeward Graphics, Jammu.
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