Accept

ACCEPT was an important project for me to make because it speaks for all people who struggle to be themselves. Everyone, including me, has the desire to belong and be themselves and at the same time has their own stories about suppressing feelings in order to fit in, get accepted, or protect themselves.
The story evolves around a girl that tries to suppress her true self in order to live a normal life with her family. With the film I wanted to address the difficulties of accepting yourself. As the short film shows, the way to self-acceptance is an enormous and important task which unfortunately does happen with a lot of setbacks and barriers along the way. It can be terrifying. Your own fear of getting rejected or prejudiced by society can be haunting. It holds you back on your journey to authenticity and leaves you alone, confused and sad. In the end the only way to fully accept and discover yourself is to face that fear and figure out which parts are your true self and which parts you created to protect yourself.
The best way for me to portray this feeling was to choose the genres Mystery, Drama and Horror. They allowed me to explore the emotional journey and hardships people have to endure in an unconventional, memorable and thought-provoking way.