The Tamil short film ‘Vanni Mouse’ directed by "Tamiliam" Subas which rocked at the recently held Norway Tamil Film Festival has won the Best Film Award in the fiction category in the nine-day 11th International Short and Independent Film Festival (ISIFF) at the Shaukat Osman auditorium of Central Public Library in Dhaka on Friday. This was the first time an Eezham Tamil artist being awarded at an international film festival.
“As far as content is concerned, the film is against violence perpetrated in the name of national integrity. To convey this message, the director picked up a form, which is an interesting combination of wild life cinematography, surrealistic backdrop and realistic incident. A monotonous journey of some mice ends up in an unexpected revelation of a human tragedy. The approach is quite original for anti-war film,” said the Jury Recitation during the announcement of the award.
‘Vanni Mouse’ is a short film following the journey of two mice, which flew from the woods of Vanni to IDP camp.
‘Vanni Mouse’ has also bagged the special prize awarded at the Periyar Short Film Festival 2009 held on 25th December at Periyar Thidal in Chennai organized by the media department of the Periyar Self-Respect movement, and special short film award at the Tamil Film Festival -2010 held in Oslo.
‘Vanni Mouse’ has also been officially selected for competing in ÈCU 2010’s European Dramatic Short category in The European Independent Film Festival in Paris, and Vibgyor International Film Festival 2010 in India under theme “Focus of the Year: `South Asia’”.
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