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...AND THE UNCLAIMED - BITCHITRA COLLECTIVE

In a remote village in India, two girls loved each other so much that they had to kill themselves, the village hated them so much that they had to be burnt as unclaimed bodies

...AND THE UNCLAIMED - BITCHITRA COLLECTIVE

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JURY SPECIAL MENTION AWARD - SiGNS Film Festival | Screened at 23+ Film Festivals

Indian LGBTQ+ Lives • Swapna-Sucheta • Sappho for Equality • Non-Normative Lives • Indian Activists

In a remote village in India, two girls Swapna and Sucheta loved each other so much that they had to kill themselves, the village hated them so much that they had to be burnt as unclaimed bodies. As the story unfolded we came to know of their love affair, and non-acceptance of the village community as well as their families. One of them had left a five page note behind, telling their story of love and loathing and asking their parents to cremate them together.

...AND THE UNCLAIMED talks about these two unclaimed dead bodies and many more dead and living ones. The central question being non-acceptance of non-normative persons, the film brings out pain and desolation of such persons who are ‘unclaimed’ by their loved ones and by the society at large. This documentary, while centering on the suicide of Swapna and Sucheta, also tells the stories of four different individuals who, because of their otherness, their gender or sexual preferences, have to go through their unique struggles, yet similar to that of Swapna's and Sucheta's life. This film talks about the tragedy as well as hope; of lives lost, lives unclaimed and also of lives lived and the horizons yet unclaimed.

Links of Interviews and Reviews

Kindle Magazine

The Statesman

Mint

India Together

Guruchandali গুরুচণ্ডা৯ (in Bengali)

SASOD Guyana

Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali)

FilmFree ফিল্মফ্রি (in Bengali)

SAD Magazine

AWARDS
Jury Special Mention Award | SiGNS Film Festival

FESTIVALS
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
KASHISH Pride Film Festival
Reel Desires, Chennai International Queer Film Festival
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF)
World Film Festival in Cannes
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK)
IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF)
Our Lives...To Live Film Festival (seeking a JUST world!)
Cinepride
NALSAR Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Pankh 2.0- LBT Film Festival
REINCARNATE : Regional Art and Film Festival
Udaipur Film Festival
Canteen Art Festival
Canteen Art Space
Priyonath Manna Bustee Community Kitchen

ACADEMIC PRESENTATION AND SCREENINGS
Affect to Activism: The Revolutionary Power of Death and Tears in Debalina's '...and the unclaimed' at Tisch School of the Arts, Department of CinemaStudies, New York University, by eminent filmmaker of Bangladesh, Rubaiyat Hossain, USA, 2015
Making Liveable Lives: Is Sexual and Gender Legislative Equality Enough? University of Brighton, UK, 2016
Queer Asia 2016: Diversity, Contestations and Developments, SOAS, University of London, UK, 2016
Talk : Glimpses Of Indian Documentary by People's Film Collective, Kolkata, India, 2017
M.Phil Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), India, 2017
At Smith College, Massachusetts, as part of a course on female sexuality and nationalism in post-colonial South Asian Cinema. It is cross listed between Studies of Gender and Sexuality, Film Studies Department and South Asia concentration, USA in January and September, 2023

SCREENINGS
Screening by CineLABIA
Lesbian Film Festival, University of Delhi
Photo Exhibition Embody: The Gender Issue Docu-Forum of PIX: The Photography Quarterly, at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
Docu-Forum, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
‘Sama-bhav’, Inter-Collegiate Film Festival
Diversity Week, The Committee for Sensitization and Orientation (CSO), Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jadavpur University
Ambedkar University Delhi
MAYA, GAIA and Raintree Organisation @ Kerala Sahitya Akademi
First Queer Film Festival in Guwahati
LGBT Film Festival hosted by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)
ViolenceReels during the Global 16 days of activism against Gender based Violence
The Reel Queer Film Festival, Syracuse University
Celebrations of 40 years of Sarga and 50 years of the film society movement in Kerala
Edward M Kennedy Center - EMK Center
Presidency University
The Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame
Four screenings at Western Sydney University, Anthropology
Sanskrit College and University
Women Gender and Sexuality Studies and the LGBT Studies,
Re-Orienting Desire: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Sphere in India. Yale University
Decolonial Film Series
InstitutfürTheaterwissenschaft (Hörsaal), Freie Universität Berlin
Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, as part of a symposium titled “Gender in Academic Discourse”