Private Project

In Between Us

In Between Us is a conversation between two women about making a film on caste.
How does one show the ordinary, viscerally? How do you use the camera to reveal structures of power and, maybe, even take back some power for ourselves? How does image-making help us negotiate, question and reflect on our differences? And as documentarians, how do we film caste? What do we show? What do we hide? Who has access? Who refrains?

Shot on mobile phone cameras in western Uttar Pradesh, the Film seeks to explore the positions of the two women, Rajkumari, a social activist from Lalitpur UP, and Ruchika, a documentary filmmaker and educator from New Delhi, within the stratified structure of caste.

  • Rajkumari Prajapati
    Director
  • Ruchika Negi
    Director
  • Rough Edges
    Producer
  • Rajkumari Prajapati
    Writer
  • Ruchika Negi
    Writer
  • Rajkumari Prajapati
    Cinematographers
  • Debankon Singh Solanky
    Cinematographers
  • Ruchika Negi
    Editors
  • Gurleen Grewal
    Editors
  • Ruchika Negi
    Sound
  • Rajkumari Ahirwar
    Sound
  • Asheesh Pandya
    Sound
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Humare Beech Mein
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    35 minutes
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    Hindi
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Bengal International Short Film Festival

    India
    Second Best Documentary
  • Dharamshala International Film Festival
    Dharamshala
    India
    November 4, 2023
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
    New Delhi
    India
    March 7, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Habitat Film Festival
    New Delhi
    India
    May 7, 2024
    Official Selection
  • South Asian Short Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    Official Selection
  • International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala
    Thiruvananthapuram
    India
    Official Selection
  • Cinévesture International Film Festival, 2024
  • SIGNS 17th Edition, 2024
  • International Social Justice Film Festival, Chennai, 2024
  • Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneswar, 2024
  • 5th Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival, 2024
Distribution Information
  • Rough Edges
    Country: India
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Rajkumari Prajapati, Ruchika Negi

Rajkumari Prajapati is a social activist embedded in the grassroots women's collective, Sahjani Shiksha Kendra, in western Uttar Pradesh, for over two decades. She is also a part of the feminist think tank, The Third Eye's Learning Lab, an arts based pedagogical platform. She was one of the filmmakers in the collaborative film project, Raat (Night time in small time India), that has travelled to various national and international film festivals, university fora and cultural festivals since its release and won the Gender Sensitivity Award at the Dharamsala International Film Festival.

Ruchika Negi is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist with an interest in arts based pedagogical practices. Some of her films include Malegaon Times, Every Time you tell a Story and Two Autumns in Wyszogrod. She has been awarded artistic residencies at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; PAV Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin and Khoj Studios, Delhi. She is also a recipient of the Charles Wallace Short Term Grant and a Research and Documentation grant from the India Foundation for the Arts. Her works have been exhibited at various festivals and art platforms, the most recent being the Kochi Muziris Biennale. She has been teaching documentary cinema in various universities and informal spaces and currently leads the Learning Lab, an arts based pedagogical platform of the feminist think tank, The Third Eye.

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