Commissioned by the UK Film Council’s digital shorts scheme, POPPY explores grief in a lyrical, mature film.
Sangeeta has travelled to be with her husband; on arrival in the UK she discovers that he has taken a lover. Betrayed and alone in an alien world, she struggles against barriers of language and culture. Finally retreating into memories of India and home, increasingly distanced from the world around her she relives a past in the hope of changing her future.
Saturated with colour, allusion and a haunting sound design, dream filters into the raw melodrama of the present: Poppy is a powerful, moving short film.
Written by Kam Gandhi and shot by Zac Nicholson (Dead Man’s Shoes, Nathan Barley) POPPY premiered at Brief Encounters International Film Festival and has since played at an extensive list of festivals and enjoys online broadcast at the BBC Film Network.
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