...ebang bewarish ...and the unclaimed
- Logline
- 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.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.The parents rejected their wish and the unclaimed bodies were disposed off by the police, unattended, uncared for.
- Talent
- Debalina
- Role of participant
- Director, Cinematographer
- Director
- Debalina Majumder
- Producer
- Sappho for Equality
- Screenwriter
- Debalina Majumder
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2013
- Running time
- 62 min
- Genre
- Documentary (Creative)
- Country of Production
- India
- Production Company
- Sappho for Equality
Cast & Crew
- Location Sound, Camera, Direction
- Debalina
- Sound Design and Editing
- Abhro Bannerjee
- Music Director
- Mainak Singha
- Chief Assistant Director
- Susmita Sinha
- Sound Re-recording and Mixing
- Abhijit Sarkar
Contact
- Name
- Debalina Majumder
Festivals and Awards
Festival Selection and award
1) 23rd Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Canada, 2013
2) 5th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India, 2013
3) Reel Desires, Chennai International Queer Film Festival, India, 2013
4) National Competition Section of the 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), India, 2014
5) Jury Special Mention Award at the 8th Signs Film Festival, Competition Section, Kochi, India, 2014
6) 11th World Film Festival,Tartu, Estonia, 2014
7) 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), India, 2014
8) 10th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival,New Delhi, India, 2014
9) The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF), India, 2014
10) 2nd Our Lives...To Live Film Festival 2014 (seeking a JUST world!), Goa, India, 2014
11) Cinepride in Nantes, France, 2014
12) The 3rd NALSAR Film Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2015
13) 30th Vancouver Queer Film Festival, 2018, Canada
14) 2nd edition of Pankh- an LBT Film Festival 2019, Mumbai, India
15) REINCARNATE : Regional Art and Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
16) 8th Udaipur Film Festival, 2023
Other Screenings
1) Screening by CineLABIA, Mumbai, India, 2013
2) Lesbian Film Festival, University of Delhi, India, 2014
3)As part of the Photo Exhibition Embody: The Gender Issue Docu-Forum of PIX: The Photography Quarterly, at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, 2014
4) As part of Docu-Forum, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata, 2014
5)‘Sama-bhav’, Inter-Collegiate Film Festival organised by Men Against Violence & Abuse (MAVA) in collaboration with RamnarainRuia, Mumbai, India, 2014
6) 14) ) As part of the Diversity Week, organised by The Committee for Sensitization and Orientation (CSO), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2014
7) Jadavpur University, organised by BEYOND, Kolkata, India, 2014
8) Ambedkar University Delhi, organised by AUD Queer Collective, New Delhi, India, 2014
9) Organised by MAYA, GAIA and Raintree Organisation @ Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala, 2014
10) First Queer Film Festival in Guwahati, organised by Xukia, 2014
11) 10th Annual LGBT Film Festival hosted by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), Guyana, 2014
12) 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) showcased fifty-four films from its lineup in seven cities in a special event called MIFF-Zone. The screenings were simultaneously organized in six cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Nagpur, Guwahati and Kolkata, 2014
13)ViolenceReels during the Global 16 days of activism against Gender based Violence organized by Kriti, New Delhi, India, 2015
14) The Reel Queer Film Festival, Syracuse University, USA, 2015
15) As part of the celebrations of 40 years of Sarga and 50 years of the film society movement in Kerala, Payyanur, Kerala,
2015
16) Organised by Khona Talkies in association with Edward M Kennedy Center - EMK Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016
17) Presidency University, Organised by Look Through, 2018
18) The Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2018
19) Four screenings at Western Sydney University for BA in Anthropology program at the Liverpool and Werrington North Campus as a teaching tool in the anthropology of globalization course, Australia, 2017 and 2018
20) Sanskrit College and University, 2019
21) Women Gender and Sexuality Studies and the LGBT Studies,
Re-Orienting Desire: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Sphere in India. Yale University, USA, 2019
22) Decolonial Film Series, organized by Africa-Asia Studies, Gender Studies together with students from Film Studies
InstitutfürTheaterwissenschaft (Hörsaal), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2019
Academic Presentation and Screenings
1) 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
2) Making Liveable Lives: Is Sexual and Gender Legislative Equality Enough? University of Brighton, UK, 2016
3) Queer Asia 2016: Diversity, Contestations and Developments, SOAS, University of London, UK, 2016
4)Talk : Glimpses Of Indian Documentary by People's Film Collective, Kolkata, India, 2017
5) M.Phil Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), India, 2017
6) 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
1) 23rd Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Canada, 2013
2) 5th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India, 2013
3) Reel Desires, Chennai International Queer Film Festival, India, 2013
4) National Competition Section of the 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), India, 2014
5) Jury Special Mention Award at the 8th Signs Film Festival, Competition Section, Kochi, India, 2014
6) 11th World Film Festival,Tartu, Estonia, 2014
7) 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), India, 2014
8) 10th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival,New Delhi, India, 2014
9) The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF), India, 2014
10) 2nd Our Lives...To Live Film Festival 2014 (seeking a JUST world!), Goa, India, 2014
11) Cinepride in Nantes, France, 2014
12) The 3rd NALSAR Film Festival, Hyderabad, India, 2015
13) 30th Vancouver Queer Film Festival, 2018, Canada
14) 2nd edition of Pankh- an LBT Film Festival 2019, Mumbai, India
15) REINCARNATE : Regional Art and Film Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
16) 8th Udaipur Film Festival, 2023
Other Screenings
1) Screening by CineLABIA, Mumbai, India, 2013
2) Lesbian Film Festival, University of Delhi, India, 2014
3)As part of the Photo Exhibition Embody: The Gender Issue Docu-Forum of PIX: The Photography Quarterly, at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, 2014
4) As part of Docu-Forum, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata, 2014
5)‘Sama-bhav’, Inter-Collegiate Film Festival organised by Men Against Violence & Abuse (MAVA) in collaboration with RamnarainRuia, Mumbai, India, 2014
6) 14) ) As part of the Diversity Week, organised by The Committee for Sensitization and Orientation (CSO), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2014
7) Jadavpur University, organised by BEYOND, Kolkata, India, 2014
8) Ambedkar University Delhi, organised by AUD Queer Collective, New Delhi, India, 2014
9) Organised by MAYA, GAIA and Raintree Organisation @ Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Thrissur, Kerala, 2014
10) First Queer Film Festival in Guwahati, organised by Xukia, 2014
11) 10th Annual LGBT Film Festival hosted by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), Guyana, 2014
12) 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) showcased fifty-four films from its lineup in seven cities in a special event called MIFF-Zone. The screenings were simultaneously organized in six cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Nagpur, Guwahati and Kolkata, 2014
13)ViolenceReels during the Global 16 days of activism against Gender based Violence organized by Kriti, New Delhi, India, 2015
14) The Reel Queer Film Festival, Syracuse University, USA, 2015
15) As part of the celebrations of 40 years of Sarga and 50 years of the film society movement in Kerala, Payyanur, Kerala,
2015
16) Organised by Khona Talkies in association with Edward M Kennedy Center - EMK Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016
17) Presidency University, Organised by Look Through, 2018
18) The Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, USA, 2018
19) Four screenings at Western Sydney University for BA in Anthropology program at the Liverpool and Werrington North Campus as a teaching tool in the anthropology of globalization course, Australia, 2017 and 2018
20) Sanskrit College and University, 2019
21) Women Gender and Sexuality Studies and the LGBT Studies,
Re-Orienting Desire: Gender, Sexuality and the Public Sphere in India. Yale University, USA, 2019
22) Decolonial Film Series, organized by Africa-Asia Studies, Gender Studies together with students from Film Studies
InstitutfürTheaterwissenschaft (Hörsaal), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2019
Academic Presentation and Screenings
1) 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
2) Making Liveable Lives: Is Sexual and Gender Legislative Equality Enough? University of Brighton, UK, 2016
3) Queer Asia 2016: Diversity, Contestations and Developments, SOAS, University of London, UK, 2016
4)Talk : Glimpses Of Indian Documentary by People's Film Collective, Kolkata, India, 2017
5) M.Phil Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), India, 2017
6) 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