Kerala filmmaker’s work on autism to premiere at IFFI

By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A documentary on autism, by a filmmaker who hails from Thiruvananthapuram, will premiere because the official choice within the non-feature movie class of the Indian panorama on the ongoing 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. ‘In Our World’, directed and produced by filmmaker Shreedhar BS of Shred Creative Lab, highlights the various shades of autism by the narratives of three youngsters. Shreedhar is a winner of 43 nationwide and worldwide accolades for artistic excellence.

The documentary shall be screened at 1pm on Monday. This movie paperwork the lives of three autistic youngsters explored by their day-to-day lived actuality. With in-depth, semi-structured, candid interviews of oldsters and therapists; their day-to-day actions like swimming courses, horse-riding and music classes; their particular moments with dad and mom, all converge right into a narrative that spells hope. 

“The way we live right now suggests there are two different worlds – of ‘them’ and us’. This film is a window for ‘us’ to see a world which needs to be understood in all its nonconformist ways and to assimilate ‘them’ in one world,” mentioned Shreedhar.  

This movie goes past mere documentation of their lives to garner a nuanced understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder. It unveils their experiences, their day by day negotiations and trials to inform the world that they don’t want sympathy. They somewhat have to be understood and accepted for who they’re and that we have to perceive their world to co-exist as equals, the filmmaker mentioned.