Manoj Michigan’s ‘I Reborn’ to compete at Goa Short Film Festival

Manoj Michigan’s silent short film ‘I Reborn’ continues its festival journey. The short depicting life from a whole new angle will now compete at the 6^th Goa Short Film Festival. It has already won the Best Director –Jury award at the 9^th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival, Best Film - Jury award at the Bangalore Short Films festival along with the prestigious Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival earlier this year.
The word 'Reborn' in the title is 'metaphorical'. It’s a 20-minute silent short exploring the cycle of life with a touching story of a young Dom. While Debopriyo Mukherjee plays the young dom, Haridas Chattopadhyay essays his father’s role in the film which has been shot in Tajpur.
Speaking about the film the director had earlier told us: “I Reborn is like a awakening, the rising, death and the re-awakening of the universal cycle we all travel on. The story opens a window to the unexplored world of a Dom or undertaker who lives with his aged almost paralyzed father in the backwaters of the Bay of Bengal.”