Land of My Dreams

A film by Nausheen Khan

Country of Production - India

Duration- 74 minutes

Language- English, Hindi | English Subtitles | Audio description 

Film shooting date- December 2019-March 2020

Film completion date- July 2023

Short Synopsis

Protests rage against the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (2019),

which persecutes Muslims. The director listens to the protestors’ voices

and observes her own identity as a Muslim woman.

Credit List

Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Writing and Narration | Nausheen Khan

Music | Kush Asher

Voice Over Recording and Sound Post-production | Lohit Bhalla (Depot Records)

Hindi Translation | Kabeer Ahmed, Aryan Mahtta, and Javed Sultan

Titles | Srishti Saxena

Colourist | Divya Kehr

Awards

1. Best Long Documentary - 15th International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, India 2023

2. Citizens’ Prize - Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2023

3. Special Mention - Carlota Political Film & Video Festival, Austria, 2023

Festival selections - 

1. 15th International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala| 5th August, 2023 | Thiruvananthapuram, India 

2. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2023 | 7th October, 9th October, 2023 | Yamagata, Japan

3. Official Selection, Political Film Festival, Carlota | 24th November, 2024 | Vienna, Austria 

4. Official Selection, 25th Madurai International Documentary & Film Festival, 2024 | 1st December, 2023 | Madurai, India

5. Official Selection, 5th Women's International Film Festival | 12th February, 2024| Kochi Kerala, India

6. Official Selection, 19th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, 2024| 8th March 2024 | New Delhi, India

7. Official Selection, London Human Rights Watch Film Festival | 12th March 2024 | London, UK

8. Official Selection, Hot Docs Film Festival | 26th and 28th April, 2024 | Toronto, Canada

9. Official Selection, 17th German International Ethnographic Film Festival | 13th May, 2024 | Göttingen, Germany

10. Official Selection, 13th South Asian Film Festival Montreal | 31 May, 2024 | Montreal, Canada

11. Official Selection, SIGNS Film Festival, Documentary Competition Section | 2nd August 2024 | Tirur, India

12.  Seoul International Women's Film Festival | 24th August, 2024 | South Korea 

13. Film South Asia | November 2024 | Kathmandu, Nepal

Screenings- 

1. Official Screening, 4th Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneswar Film Society | 23rd September, 2023 | Bhubaneswar, India

2. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies | 15th October 2023| Tokyo 

3. Special Screening, G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture | 22nd October, 2023 | Mumbai, India

4. Official Screening 15th IDSFFK Winners Documentary Film Festival, 2023 | 20th October, 2023 | Kottayam 

5. Special Screening, Sandbox Collective| 18th February, 2024 | Bangalore, India

6. Special Screening, Bangalore | 23rd March, 2023 | Bangalore, India

7. Special Screening, Kolkata Peoples’ festival | 6th April, 2023 | Kolkata, India

8. Official Screening, Azim Premji University, Bhopal | 9th April, 2024 | Bhopal, India

9. Official Screening, Azim Premji University, Bangalore | 15th April, 2023 | Bangalore, India

10. Official Screening, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield | 19th April 2024 | Sheffield, UK

11. Official Screening, Our Coven of Culture, Goa | April 20th, 2024 | Goa, India

12.  Official Screening, South Asia Solidarity Group + University College of London | 23rd April, 2024 | London, UK

13. Screening, King’s India Institute, King’s College London | 15th May, 2024 | London, United Kingdom

14. Special Screening, Drik Bangladesh | May 21st, 2024 | Dhaka, Bangladesh 

15. Screening, BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London  | 31st May 2024 | London, United Kingdom

16. Screening, Camera Commune | 2nd June, 2024 | New Delhi, India

17. Screening, University of Sussex | 4th June, 2024 | Brighton, United Kingdom

18. Screening, Winchester School of Art as part of Material Interests, University of Southampton | 5th June 2024 | Winchester, United Kingdom

19. TECHNE Summer Congress 2024, University of Roehampton | 16th July 2024 | London, United Kingdom

20. FICA, Film Screening, Vadehra Art Gallery, The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art| 2nd August 2024 | New Delhi, India

21. Film Screening, Museum of Art and Photography| 6th August 2024 | Bangalore, India. 

22. Freedom Documentary Film Festival, Coimbatore | 11th August, 2024 | Coimbatore, India

23. Freedom Film Festival, Chennai | 15th August, 2024 | Chennai, India

24. Freedom Film Festival, Hyderabad | 29th August, 2024 | Hyderabad, India.

25. Screening, University of St. Andrews | 2nd August, 2024 | Scotland, United Kingdom

NEWS AND REVIEWS

1. Nausheen Khan’s Land of My Dreams wins Best Long Documentary Award at IDSFFK - The Hindu

2. Democracy not complete when rebellious voices are suppressed: Pinarayi at IDSFFK -The New Indian Express

3. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023 Announces Winners -Asian Movies Pulse

4. ‘Land of My Dreams’: The strength of the women who led the 2019 Shaheen Bagh protests - FRANCE 24