AN OUTSTANDING PUNJABI SHORT FILM PREMIERED IN NEW YORK WINS SEVERAL NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS !
A short Punjabi film named “RAAVI”, directed by an outstanding several national and international awards winning filmmaker Jasmine Kaur Roy highlighting the notions of pain, suffering and confinement during pandemic times – partly real and partly fiction have been a great success after being premiered in New York Indian Film Festival in 2022 winning several prestigious, awards
and travelling to festivals across the world. A two time National Award winning filmmaker producing and directing short films and documentaries under the banner of Wanderlust films ” RAAVI” is indeed very special for her as it’s the result of her mother’s struggle to cope and subsequent confinement during the peak of pandemic. THE director’s deeply personal film “RAAVI”, is in a way a highly inspiring creation for Jasmine as through this film she was able to passionately capture notions of pain, suffering and confinement of her mother during pandemic era when it was at its peak. According to Jasmine “Raavi”, is a deeply personal film. I had been toying with the idea of making a documentary on my maternal grandfather, a war veteran who was captured as a POW in Pakistan during the Indo-Pak war of 1965. Stories of his traumatic time in captivity have time and again tugged at my senses. The mind wandered to him once again as I saw my mother struggling to cope with her own confinement during the peak of
pandemic. As she suffered through her loneliness, I was left wondering – how relative
are the notions of pain, suffering and confinement! Part real and part fiction, the ideas merged and gave birth to ‘Raavi’. Growing up in an all-women household with a single mother, my grandfather or ‘Daddy’, as we called him, was the father figure I had. This
small film is my way of keeping his memory alive said Director of this short film while shedding light over the making of this film. Kindly recall that
Jasmine Kaur Roy is a two-time National Award winning filmmaker, producing and
directing short films and documentaries under her banner Wanderlust Films. An
alumna of Film & Television Institute of India, some of her films have been screened at
prestigious international festivals including Clermont – Ferrand, International Film
Festival of India (IFFI) and International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala
(IDSFFK). She has also been on the juries of IFFI as well as the National Film Awards
in India. She was selected as a participant director at Berlinale Talents 2015, the talent
development program of Berlin International Film Festival. Her notable films are
‘Raavi’, ‘Amoli’ (66th National Film Award 2018), ‘Saanjh’ (The Dusk) (52nd National
Film Award 2005) and ‘Scavenging Dreams’. Precisely fear and insecurity plague the mind of 73-year-old Raavi as she finds herself trapped in her own home. While she wallows in the misery of her confinement, some scraps of
memories float from a distant past and find release. The past and present fuse
seamlessly and suffering acquires a new meaning. The short film Raavi’s duration is 14 minutes, 15 seconds with producer and cinematographer being Avinash Ray and Tajdar Junaid it’s music composer. The writer, director and editor is Jasmine Roy Kaur with Sound design by Vivek Sachidanand. The movie is credited for achieving several prestigious, awards such as V Shantaram Golden Award for Best Direction in Short Fiction at the 5th South
Asian Short Film Festival 2022, Kolkata, Ritwik Ghatak Silver Award for 2nd Best Short Fiction at the 5th South Asian Short Film Festival 2022, Kolkata, 2nd Runner-up at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2022 (Women
Cinema Collective), New York Indian Film Festival 2022, 19th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart 2022, International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto 2022, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 20225th South Asian Short Film Festival 2022, Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2022, Imagine India International Film Festival 2022, Madrid, Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival 2022, Dharamshala International Film Festival 2022, South Asian Film Festival of Montreal 2023, 15th Habitat Film Festival 2023. Best wishes Jasmine!
