Winner of The Jan Němec Award for Best Debut

For the astonishing 3D graphics, mesmerizing narrative, and entirely immersive experience, for a voice and a vision which is utterly unique The Jan Němec Award for Best Debut goes to Maitry Rao for Anywhere But Here (Maitry Rao, UK, 2021).

Anywhere But Here

Anywhere But Here (2021) is a metacommentary film about wanting to go places and see new faces, but being prevented from doing so by the pandemic. The narrator unravels a bittersweet resolution in the self-reflexive filmmaking process as we dive deeper into her dreamscape.

Credits

• Maitry Rao

Director/Writer/Producer

• Kaushik Venkat

  Sound Designer and Music composer

• Sophie Vicars

  3D modelling Assistant