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Screenings

IRGAC, Berlin

10 December 2024

The film was screened online for the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, followed by a discussion with Professor Damir Arsenijevic and the research group.

Vikalp@Prithvi

13 September 2024

From September 13-15, 2024, Vikalp@Prithvi co-ordinated an online screening and discussion of the film for a global audience to mark four years of Umar Khalid’s incarceration.

Additionally in September, numerous civil society groups and student organizations were motivated to organize more than 60 offline screenings and discussions across India and in other parts of the world. The film is now at the centre of a renewed, ongoing international campaign for the release of Umar Khalid and other political prisoners.

Online Premiere

11 August 2024

The film was screened online to commemorate Umar Khalid’s 37th birthday to a wide viewing audience.

The online viewing audience peaked at 39,000 views across 14 countries.

March 2025


  • Pondicherry University Film Festival, Pondicherry - March 19, 2025



February 2025


Screenings in the US and Canada

  • Edison Library, New Jersey - February 1, 2025

  • Columbia University at the Maysles Documentary Center, New York - February 3, 2025

  • Amherst College, Massachusetts - February 5, 2025

  • Brown University, Providence, RI - February 6, 2025

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston - February 7, 2025

  • McMaster University, Hamilton - February 10, 2025

  • Queens University, Kingston - February 11, 2025

  • York University, Toronto - February 12, 2025

  • University of Western Ontario, London - February 13, 2025

  • Community Screening at York Civic Centre, Toronto - February 14, 2025


Screening in India


  • APDR, Malda - February 26, 2025



January 2025


  • 8th Dialogue Film Society Festival, Ottapalam, Kerala - January 9, 2025

  • Kino Lumière, Göttingen, Germany - January 16, 2025

  • St. Paul's Institute for Communication Education, Mumbai - January 31, 2025


Screenings in the US and Canada


  • New York University, New York - January 30, 2025



December 2024


  • A New Year with Umar Khalid and Other Political Prisoners, Kannur - December 31, 2024

  • Kannur, Kerala - December 24, 2024

  • Guftugu Collective Film Festival on Political Prisoners, Kozhikode – December 7, 2024

  • APDR, College Street, Kolkata – December 8, 2024

  • Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Madurai – December 10, 2024


November 2024


  • Kasturba Gandhi Bhawan, New Delhi – November 23, 2024


October 2024

  • APDR, Barasat, Kolkata – October 26, 2024

  • BML Munjal University – October 23, 2024

  • Exeter South Asia Centre, UK – October 16

  • Scrapyard Theatre, Ahmedabad – October 16, 2024

  • AISA, University of Hyderabad – October 12, 2024

  • Gandhi Ambedkar Study Circle, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi – October 10, 2024

  • SRFTI, Kolkata – October 9, 2024

  • Remembering Balagopal, Hyderabad – October 6, 2024

  • Press Club Screening, Delhi – October 4, 2024

  • SiGNS International Film Festival – Official Selection – October 3, 2024

September 2024

  • International Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneshwar (IDFFB) – Official Selection – September 27, 2024

  • Fatima Sheikh Circle Screening, Mumbra, Maharashtra – September 18, 2024

  • Press Club Screening, Mumbai – September 18, 2024

  • Film Club, Bhubaneshwar – September 15, 2024

  • People’s Film Collective, Kolkata – September 15, 2024

  • Confluence, Mohali – September 14, 2024

  • Eddelu Karnataka Screenings (September 13-15, 2024):

    • Chickaballapura, Doddaballapura, Gangavathi (Koppala District), Mysore, Dakshina Kannada, Belgavi, Chikmagalore, Bellary, Chitrdurga, Raichur, Bangalore, Davangere, Yadgiri, Bagalkote, Dharwad, Hassan, Shivamogga, Udupi, Kalburgi, Vijayanagar (Raichur District), Hoskote, Gudibande, Ilakal Taluk, Malur (Kolar, Bangarpete), Bider.

  • Other Screenings in Karnataka and Kerala:

    • Ashirwad, Bengaluru (Organized by Eedalu Karnataka, Vikalp Bengaluru, Pedestrian Pictures, and Maraa) – September 14, 2024

    • Samvada Badukku College, Bengaluru

    • Communication Dept., St. Joseph's College, Bengaluru – September 14, 2024

    • Media One Academy, Calicut – September 14, 2024

    • Fraternity, Calicut

    • Dialogue Film Society, Ottapalam

  • Social Justice Festival, Chennai – September 14, 2024

  • Social Justice Festival, Chennai – September 13, 2024

  • Oxford South Asia Society, Somerville College, UK – September 13

  • Ashoka University, Sonepat – September 13, 2024

  • JNU, Delhi – September 13, 2024

  • Jawahar Bhawan, Delhi – September 13, 2024

  • Vikalp Online Screenings – September 13-15, 2024 (to mark 4 years of Umar Khalid’s imprisonment)

Premieres and August 2024 Screenings

  • Online Premiere – August 11, 2024 (in honor of Umar Khalid’s 37th birthday)

  • World Premiere International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), Trivandrum, Kerala – July 29, 2024

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