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Short films, like short stories have come now to stay. At a time when the consumer himself is the producer and everyone has an apparent scarcity of time, short films suit every stake holder.\u00a0 Generally the budget of a short film is far less than a commercial venture which makes the young enthusiast try his\/her luck at film-making. Yet, like any art form short film as a genre is no different and hence, after the initial excitement settles down the aesthetics of successful short films are different. Just as a 100 metre race is different from a marathon, a T20 necessarily dissimilar from its 50-over counterpart, a short film isn\u2019t a shortened version of a narrative feature. It has its own conditions, its own paradigms and its own mechanism to be fruitful.<\/p>\n
In acknowledgement of this, many of the film festivals worldwide have started a short film section even though the same isn\u2019t as popular as the feature film section. However in distinct difference from documentary films which were always been branded as \u2018serious\u2019, short films have started to have its own audience thanks to the age of internet.<\/p>\n
The Dharamshala International Film Festival 2016 (DIFF 2016) is no exception and hosts 13 short films across 2 sections \u2013 SHORTS and ROYAL STAG BARREL SELECT LARGE SHORT FILMS. One of the notable films is Marathi short Daaravtha<\/em> (The Threshold<\/em>) by Nishant Roy Bombarde where we find a pre-teen Pankaj caught in a crossroad \u2013 between the strict norms of a patriarchal society and its expectations, and his own desires. \u00a0Winner of the \u2018Best Debut Film of a Director (Short Film)\u2019 award at the 63rd National Film Awards, India the film narrates how Pankaj finds himself being bullied and how closed the society is to accept the layered differences within a heterogeneous society.<\/p>\n Daaravtha<\/em> Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n