Jungli
Logline:
After reuniting with her husband in the UK for a promising future, an Indian woman soon realises that perhaps the only way to create a better future is by cutting ties with the only person she knows in the foreign land.
"An editor from India who migrated to the UK for marriage, only to find myself on the streets soon after — I’ve navigated the iron walls of the immigration system through the loss of love, career, home, identity, and everything I once knew and called my own. Now, the only way forward is the way I know best. Through this lab, I will develop the skills to shape my voice as a fresh writer-director in a new environment and to explore detachment while staying true to the soul of the story".
Sheeba Sehgal
Indian filmmaker
Sheeba Sehgal is an alum of FTII in India and has been working for over ten years as an editor across different mediums in both India and the UK.
Her most noted credits include Hindi Medium (Filmfare Best Film), Pihu (India’s submission to the Oscars), and Bioscopewalla (India’s submission to the Oscars).
Her most recent feature film, Judgmental Hai Kya, explored a woman’s struggle and redemption from dissociative identity disorder and received phenomenal reception despite heavy censorship.
Since moving to the UK in 2021, Sheeba has edited short films and worked as a part-time film programmer with the Flatpack Film Festival. She is currently working as both writer and editor on The Labyrinth (with the support of the BFI Doc Society Fund) and is refining her skills as a screenwriter.
This animated documentary is inspired by her experience of rebuilding her life as an immigrant in a foreign land.
Sheeba is also developing a cross-border fiction feature script—a triptych exploring territorial control within marriage, across country borders, and man versus nature.