Our Bodies Ours
Our Bodies Ours is a short poetic animated film that explores the nuance and beauty of trans becoming from a diasporic lens. Leaning on the music of lyric, it reframes gender-affirming care as an intricate, intimate and meandering act. What does it take to stitch our bodies into their true and ever-changing shapes, to migrate between who we are and who we may become?
Screenings
Virtual
Directors Spotlight
Sonali Gulati
Director
Sonali Gulati is a desi independent filmmaker, a feminist, a queer rights activist, and an educator. Gulati is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Creative Capital fellow and has screened their films at over 500 film festivals worldwide.
Sanam Sheriff
Director
Sanam Sheriff is a queer poet, performer, and educator from Bangalore, India. Their debut poetry collection HUM ہم won the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in October, 2026.
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 8 minutes
- Country
- United States, India
- Language
- English
- Directors
- Sonali Gulati, Sanam Sheriff
- Screenwriter
- Sanam Sheriff
- Producer
- Sonali Gulati
- Executive Producer
- Sonali Gulati
- Cast
- Sanam Sheriff
- Cinematographer
- Sonali Gulati
- Editor
- Sonali Gulati
- Animators
- Sonali Gulati, Nayanika Chatterjee, Gandhar Dharmadhikari, Yathi Kiran, Saurabh Natekar, Shashank Shekhar
- Production Design
- Sonali Gulati
- Composer
- Veer Nigam
- Sound Design
- Rahul Pugazhendi
- Premiere
- World