‘Youth’ is a lovely conversation with the sharpness of pain we specifically associate with our firsts, or the years that would eventually go ahead to serve the foundation of adulthood. It is an interaction with a fresh heart that is perhaps yet to see its share of tragedies. All of this is mapped against the intimacy of friendship, and consequently, the soul crushing realization that comes with its deprivation. 

As we are taken into a single afternoon when two girls say their goodbyes, the circumstance comes to be defined by anger, denial and helplessness. Additionally, locating itself in the late nineties, there is further a texture added to the narratorial development, while also emphasizing a time before the internet and social media have made their inevitable appearance on the horizon of urban lives. 

Sarah and Jessica share an endearing friendship, one that faces a crucial crossroads. The film does a sophisticated job of allowing the viewer to witness this moment, along with all the poignancy that it entails.

Youth | Short Film of the Day

The film is an exploration of fear and despair. The circumstance employed to achieve the same is the most unusual, as well as horrifying for the protagonist. A man wakes up to find a gravely wounded man lying next to his car. 

The gore of the spectacle before him soon mixes with horror when he realizes the man is in fact him, now slowly bleeding to death as he watches from a non-corporeal, spiritual plane. However, this in no way implies that his death is final. And it is indeed in these last straws of hope that he is desperately grabbing on to that the story comes into being. He runs inside the house, trying everything in his might to seek help, to perhaps even warn the sole occupant of the house, a woman who lies asleep in her bed. 

As the several elements of this brief, precise narrative are strewn together, the end result becomes a conversation around the ideas of death, afterlife, with a sense of cosmic horror tying it all together, but most importantly, about the fate of the protagonist which now hangs in very precarious balance.

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