It is late into the night when a boy leaves a library and heads to the parking lot of the building. However, right from the opening of the film, his deep discomfort and distress is apparent to the viewer. His movements are rushed and unsure, suggesting the fear of perhaps being followed. 

Even the most regular and mundane situations acquire disturbing proportions for the protagonist as he desperately seeks to leave the underground parking lot and head home. Accompanying these tense visuals is the constant pinging of a phone in the form of text messages and phone calls from a woman who is keeping regular tabs on the protagonist's movements. 

 All of these developments are tied together to conjure a narrative about abusive relationships and the manner in which they can come to control a person's lived reality. The film adopts characteristics of the thriller and horror genres to convey its intentions, and completes itself by offering the viewer a fast-paced final result.

Answer Your Phone | Short Film Nominee

The film is about a woman's complete absorption in the superhero universe, leading her to aspire to possess the same superpowers as the characters she reads about in her graphic novels or watches on television. What begins as a fun hobby to indulge in with a friend soon takes the form of an obsession of humungous magnitude, setting in motion irreversible events. The narrative has vision and the intention to engage with the intricacies of the human mind. It also wants to converse with desires that might one day achieve a size that forces them out of all conceivable boundaries of rationality. However, the execution shows a want of fine-tuning. Overall, the film aspires to be an entertaining, involving and intriguing story that weaves in elements of psychology, violence, crime and a woman's attempts to stop at nothing to realise the wishes she has decided to fulfil, irrespective of the consequences.

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