Heer
Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016
Honey B Singh / Short Narrative / Canada, India, Singapore, United States of America / 2015 / 13 min / Colour / DCP2K / In English, Punjabi / Arabic, English subtitles / MENA Premiere
Rated: Parental guidance is advised for viewers under the age of 13. Individuals under the age of 13 are not admitted into cinemas unless accompanied by an individual aged 18 or older.
Synopsis
After Heer’s mother dies, her grieving father becomes distant toward her. In her own grief, Heer becomes inseparable from Moti, her mother’s baby goat, even taking the young animal with her to school, where she is bullied by older boys and made fun of by her classmates. Eventually, even though Moti is a source of comfort when she misses her late mother, Heer finds that to move forward with her own life, she must not hang on to the past it represents.
About the Director
Honey B Singh is a Canadian writer-director who graduated from the film production MFA programme at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore in 2016. For the past four years, Singh has been writing, directing and producing short films, music videos and commercials, which have won awards and played at film festivals. She is the founder of Honeylove Films, where she is developing a slate of feature films with strong female protagonists of colour.
Credits
- Director
- Honey B Singh
- Screenwriter
- Honey B Singh
- Producer
- Mona Singh
- Editor
- Aarti Bajaj, Danial Haris B Kassim
- Executive Producer
- Baljit Singh
- Music
- Steffen Schmidt
- Cinematographer
- Malay Prakash
- Production Company
- Honeylove Films
- Cast
- Nimrat Kaur, Baljinder Singh Darapuri, Mamta Khanna, Nirbhay Singh, Jagdish, Kamal Preet Singh, Jaskaran Singh and Manna Singh