Aabar Jadi Iccha Karo ...If You Dare Desire ...
- Logline
‘If You Dare Desire…’, is a wish-fulfilling film. A hyper-reality of desire. A politics of hope, resistance through desire, through daily living. Welcome to the many worlds of Swapna-Shucheta.
Dare to dream, and desire!- Talent
- Debalina
- Role of participant
- Cinematographer, Director
- Director
- Debalina
- Producer
- Sappho for Equality
- Screenwriter
- Susmita Sinha
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2017
- Running time
- 52 min
- Genre
- Queer
- Country of Production
- India
- Production Company
- Sappho for Equality
Contact
- Name
- Debalina Majumder
Festivals and Awards
Festival Selection and award
1) Closing film, The International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT) Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi, India, 2018
2) 5th MIX Copenhagen | LesbianGayBiTrans Film Festival, Denmark, 2017
3) GFEST - GaywiseFESTival, LGBTQI, London, UK, 2017
4) 9th Merlinka festival in December, Belgrade- Serbia, 2017
5) Closing Film, Reel Desires, Chennai International Queer Film Festival, CIQFF, India, 2017
6) Queer Asia Film Festival , London, UK, 2017
7) Our Shorts Their Shorts Fall Screening Session, Bangladesh, 2018
8) 21ST PINK APPLE, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018
9) 10th Edition of The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF), India, 2018
10) 4th Kolkata People’s Film Festival, India, 2017
11) Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK, 2018
12) 30thVancouver Queer Film Festival, Canada, 2018
13) Diversity-award for the best feature film at the 18th Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival, Spain
14) 13th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, the largest South Asian Film Festival in America, TSAFF2018, Seattle, USA, 2018
15) Queerstreifen Munster, Germany 2018
16) Best Film, Gender - 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival, New Delhi, India, 2018
17) Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival, 2019
18) RIFFA ( Regina International Film Festival & Awards ), Regina, Saskatchewan. Official Nomination for ‘Best International Feature’. Canada, 2019
19) 21st Edition Of The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, KGFF2020, Mumbai, India, 2020
20) 'The Matinee Show', a festival organised by 'Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch (MPMM), in association with IAWRT at the State Museum, Shamla Hills, Bhopal, India, 2019. The film was live-dubbed in Hindi
21) 3rd Habra Film Festival, India, 2020
22) Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival 2020 – Best Actor award for Farha Khatun
23) Indian Film Festival, Bhubaneswar, (IFFB '23), 23rd January, 2023 at Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, India
Other Screenings
1) Laadli : Student Film Festival for Population First, 2015 (Work-in-progress)
2) Screening as part of Queer Feminism Course at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, 2016 & 2017 (Work-in-progress)
3) SATRANG - Jawaharlal Nehru University Queer Film Festival, 2015 (Work-in-progress)
4) 16th National Conference of Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS), New Delhi, India, 2020
5) Decolonial Film Series, organized by Africa-Asia Studies, Gender Studies together with students from Film Studies
InstitutfürTheaterwissenschaft (Hörsaal), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2019
6) As part of a Residential Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) in collaboration between Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Mariwala Health Initiative, Mumbai, India, 2019
7) South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2018
8) Noon Festival, Germany’s first queer, Muslim festival for charity, as part of the event "On Being *Queer and *South Asian", Berlin, 2019
9) Open Window International Film Challenge, Kolkata, India, 2019
10) Memari Film Festival, Bardhaman, India, 2019
11) My Pride 2018, at Amra Odbhut Café, Kolkata, India, 2018
11) Screenings at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, at different fests and as part of course studies, Mumbai, India
12) CSAS, University of Cambridge, as part of the Centre for South Asian Studies film series, UK, 2019
13) Pride Friday Film Festival 2021, organised by Solidarity Foundation, Bengaluru. 30.06.2021
14) Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 organised by Harkat Arts and Performance Space
Part of a larger curatorial, which includes an installation, bioscope, performance and workshops,
the Andar Baahar (Inside Outside) film screenings aim to touch upon a range of perspectives
1) Closing film, The International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT) Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi, India, 2018
2) 5th MIX Copenhagen | LesbianGayBiTrans Film Festival, Denmark, 2017
3) GFEST - GaywiseFESTival, LGBTQI, London, UK, 2017
4) 9th Merlinka festival in December, Belgrade- Serbia, 2017
5) Closing Film, Reel Desires, Chennai International Queer Film Festival, CIQFF, India, 2017
6) Queer Asia Film Festival , London, UK, 2017
7) Our Shorts Their Shorts Fall Screening Session, Bangladesh, 2018
8) 21ST PINK APPLE, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018
9) 10th Edition of The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF), India, 2018
10) 4th Kolkata People’s Film Festival, India, 2017
11) Leeds Queer Film Festival, UK, 2018
12) 30thVancouver Queer Film Festival, Canada, 2018
13) Diversity-award for the best feature film at the 18th Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival, Spain
14) 13th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, the largest South Asian Film Festival in America, TSAFF2018, Seattle, USA, 2018
15) Queerstreifen Munster, Germany 2018
16) Best Film, Gender - 6th Woodpecker International Film Festival, New Delhi, India, 2018
17) Thessaloniki International LGBTIQ Film Festival, 2019
18) RIFFA ( Regina International Film Festival & Awards ), Regina, Saskatchewan. Official Nomination for ‘Best International Feature’. Canada, 2019
19) 21st Edition Of The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, KGFF2020, Mumbai, India, 2020
20) 'The Matinee Show', a festival organised by 'Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch (MPMM), in association with IAWRT at the State Museum, Shamla Hills, Bhopal, India, 2019. The film was live-dubbed in Hindi
21) 3rd Habra Film Festival, India, 2020
22) Out & Loud - Pune International Queer Film Festival 2020 – Best Actor award for Farha Khatun
23) Indian Film Festival, Bhubaneswar, (IFFB '23), 23rd January, 2023 at Odissi Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, India
Other Screenings
1) Laadli : Student Film Festival for Population First, 2015 (Work-in-progress)
2) Screening as part of Queer Feminism Course at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, 2016 & 2017 (Work-in-progress)
3) SATRANG - Jawaharlal Nehru University Queer Film Festival, 2015 (Work-in-progress)
4) 16th National Conference of Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS), New Delhi, India, 2020
5) Decolonial Film Series, organized by Africa-Asia Studies, Gender Studies together with students from Film Studies
InstitutfürTheaterwissenschaft (Hörsaal), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2019
6) As part of a Residential Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) in collaboration between Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Mariwala Health Initiative, Mumbai, India, 2019
7) South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2018
8) Noon Festival, Germany’s first queer, Muslim festival for charity, as part of the event "On Being *Queer and *South Asian", Berlin, 2019
9) Open Window International Film Challenge, Kolkata, India, 2019
10) Memari Film Festival, Bardhaman, India, 2019
11) My Pride 2018, at Amra Odbhut Café, Kolkata, India, 2018
11) Screenings at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, at different fests and as part of course studies, Mumbai, India
12) CSAS, University of Cambridge, as part of the Centre for South Asian Studies film series, UK, 2019
13) Pride Friday Film Festival 2021, organised by Solidarity Foundation, Bengaluru. 30.06.2021
14) Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 organised by Harkat Arts and Performance Space
Part of a larger curatorial, which includes an installation, bioscope, performance and workshops,
the Andar Baahar (Inside Outside) film screenings aim to touch upon a range of perspectives