Panelists: Jeo Baby, Shabani Hassanwalia, Yashowardhan Mishra; Moderator: Ananya Dasgupta
The event began with special screenings of films City Girls by Priya Thuvassery (The Third Eye Films), My Other Self is Plastic by Khushi Bano, (The Third Eye Films), Mandi by Yashovardhan Mishra) and Ebb by Jeo Baby). The panel then interrogated how cinema produces, manages and circulates desires. The audience engaged with films, not just as a platform for representation, but as an affective machinery that, in conversation with society, culture and the law, negotiates with legible and illegible desires.