Serena Chopra and Kasey Ferlic’s film, Dogana/Chapti, presents narratives of identity, family and sociopolitical perspectives from queer Indian and Indian-American women and non-binary gender folks. The film’s title comes from the 18th century Urdu feminist poetic form, the rekhti, which inspects sexual desires between women and employs terms like “dogana,” used to designate a woman’s self-chosen female friend and “chapti,” a term denoting the rubbing and clinging of female-to-female intercourse.

As recipients of the 2018 Arthyve’s Archives as Muse Orphan Film Grant, Chopra and Ferlic’s film will debut on November 4th at the Denver Film Festival.

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