Winners for the Filmfare Short Film Awards 2021

Arjun is a story of a little blind boy who sees the world‚ through his own vision.This slice of life film is about a simple incident in his life. Arjun is introduced to the art of sketching, rather stencil sketching by his cousin and an artist, Ateesh. Someone who perceives this world through touch, this is another way of seeing the beauty of this world, for Arjun. He wants to give a sketch to his favourite teacher. The story revolves around this beautiful feeling that Arjun experiences while drawing and perceiving things differently.

Cast
Arnav Abdagire
Ashwini Giri
Mahendra Walunj

In a world of only same sex couples, a man and a woman fall in love and decide to get married, a first of its kind. Along with an interview about their battles with themselves and the society, we see their life in homemade video footage.

Arjun is a story of a little blind boy who sees the world‚ through his own vision.This slice of life film is about a simple incident in his life. Arjun is introduced to the art of sketching, rather stencil sketching by his cousin and an artist, Ateesh. Someone who perceives this world through touch, this is another way of seeing the beauty of this world, for Arjun. He wants to give a sketch to his favourite teacher. The story revolves around this beautiful feeling that Arjun experiences while drawing and perceiving things differently.

Cast
Arnav Abdagire
Ashwini Giri
Mahendra Walunj

As name suggests, this short Documentary film is shot in Backyard, showing the nature-diversity found in it.
Film starts with the Drawing of a Pre-history couple trying their best to learn farming.
In the next painting a present day farmer is shown farming in paddy fields, and new experiments like power tiller trailer.
After that it is suggested that Backyard is also a farming experiment done by our ancestors.
Camera moves in backyard and vast diversity from butterflies to snakes in shown.
Then film moves to birds.
All these creatures get water, food, shelter in backyards.
Finally the message is conveyed that we should provide safety to all these creatures, as wildlife sanctuaries do.

Devi is the story of nine oppressed women, from different strata of society, living in a small room, faced with the dilemma of sharing their space and stories in a country all too used to tragedy and pain.