Our Body Ours

Director(s):

Sanam Sheriff and Sonali Gulati

Biography(s):

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. Sanam’s work has appeared in POETRY, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Offing, The Adroit Journal, Outlook India, and elsewhere. Sonali Gulati is a Guggenheim Fellow and has screened her films at over 500 film festivals. She is a desi independent filmmaker, a feminist, a queer rights activist, and an educator. She teaches film at Virginia Commonwealth University''s School of the Arts in the department of Photography & Film. She has an MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. 

Producer(s):

Sonali Gulati

Writer(s):

Sanam Sheriff

Cast:

Sanam Sheriff

Cinematographer(s):

Sonali Gulati