MUMBAI: A film by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) student Gaurav Shimpi titled Chumbak has won the Special Jury Award at Kyoto International Student Film and Video Festival. A total of 250 films competed in the recently concluded 15th edition of the festival in Japan.

Chumbak is the story of a ten year old Dinu who has a fascination for magnets but is unable to connect with the people around him. One day, he goes out to give tiffin to his father at his workplace and a sequence of events follow. A group of boys take away Dinu‘s magnets on his way back.

He meets a shepherd, who much to the amazement of Dinu, transforms an iron piece into a magnet for him. Like the magnet connects Dinu with the shepherd, the former goes back and tries to connect himself with other people in the society through his magnetic innocence.

Hailing from Pune, Shimpi finished the Television Direction course from FTII in 2012.