Gender as a discourse is endlessly layered and nuanced, demanding a constant engagement with its several aspects. The short film is a skilled endeavour to interact with one of these countless threads. By taking the viewer into the problematic thoughts of its protagonist, the film initiates a relevant conversation about identifying, accepting and addressing the problem within. <br><br> All actions stem from thought, which thereby becomes the first point of correction and amendment. This is the message the film communicates and accentuates through its character of a writer who sits at his desk, indulging himself in imagined situations with the women that surround him. Further, an interplay with ideas of guilt, acceptance, forgiveness and growth is invoked, suggesting that it is only human to find yourself going astray sometimes. However, it is the desire and inclination to check oneself in time that is the most relevant and important concern in furthering the cause of gender equality and ending harassment and discrimination intrinsic to its contemporary dynamics.

#Itoo | Short Film of the Day

‘Nauha’, or a mournful song or lamentation, elucidates its primary idea in the title itself. It is a story of the burden of human existence, and the struggle to survive it, or be crushed under its weight while trying. We experience the narrative through the eyes of three characters, a man, a woman and a little girl. <br><br> If one of them finds himself giving in to excesses and debauchery, the other is willing to end a life of its own travails, as well as that of her little, unsuspecting daughter. The last of them, the child, still unaware and uninitiated in the cruelties of the world, is simply a mute, powerless receptor. It is in the weaving of these three stories that the film comes into being. 


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