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

4. Best Long Documentary - SIGNS Film Festival, India, 2024

Official festival selections - 

• 15th International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram, India 

• 4th Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneswar Film Society | Bhubaneswar, India

• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2023 | Yamagata, Japan

• 15th IDSFFK Winners Documentary Film Festival, 2023 | 20th October, 2023 | Kottayam 

• Political Film Festival, Carlota | Vienna, Austria 

• 25th Madurai International Documentary & Film Festival, 2024 | Madurai, India

• 5th Women's International Film Festival | Kochi Kerala, India

• 19th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, 2024 | New Delhi, India

• London Human Rights Watch Film Festival | London, UK

• Hot Docs Film Festival | Toronto, Canada

• 17th German International Ethnographic Film Festival | Göttingen, Germany

• 13th South Asian Film Festival Montreal | Montreal, Canada

• SIGNS Film Festival, Documentary Competition Section | Tirur, India

• Nearby Film Festival, Guangzhou | China

•  Seoul International Women's Film Festival | South Korea 

• Film South Asia | Kathmandu, Nepal
  

Screenings-

• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies | 15th October 2023| Tokyo 

• G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture | 22nd October, 2023 | Mumbai, India

• Sandbox Collective| 18th February, 2024 | Bangalore, India

• Bangalore | 23rd March, 2023 | Bangalore, India

• Kolkata Peoples’ festival | 6th April, 2023 | Kolkata, India

• Azim Premji University, Bhopal | 9th April, 2024 | Bhopal, India

• Azim Premji University, Bangalore | 15th April, 2023 | Bangalore, India

• Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield | 19th April 2024 | Sheffield, UK

• Our Coven of Culture, Goa | April 20th, 2024 | Goa, India

• South Asia Solidarity Group + University College of London | 23rd April, 2024 | London, UK

• King’s India Institute, King’s College London | 15th May, 2024 | London, United Kingdom

• Drik Bangladesh | May 21st, 2024 | Dhaka, Bangladesh 

• BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London  | 31st May 2024 | London, United Kingdom

• Camera Commune | 2nd June, 2024 | New Delhi, India

• University of Sussex | 4th June, 2024 | Brighton, United Kingdom

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

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

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

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

• Museum of Art and Photography| 6th August 2024 | Bangalore, India. 

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

• Freedom Film Festival, Chennai | 15th August, 2024 | Chennai, India

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

• Jersey Arts Centre’s 20th Human Rights Festival | 1st October, 2024 | Jersey, Channel Islands

• Bangalore International Centre | 1st December, 2024 | Bengaluru, India

• Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi | 6th December, 2024 | New Delhi, India

• Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria (Part of Symposium on Making Democracy as a Community of Life, Transregional dialogues across Asia and Africa | 28th February, 2025 | Pretoria, South Africa

• The Wits University Centre for Diversity Studies | 3rd March, 2025 | Johannesburg, South Africa

• Emily Carr University of Art + Design | 26th March, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada

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