LSFF 2023: SHASHA Movies: Hijra

Shasha Movies presents Hijra, a special programme created for an RCA MA Architecture course, ‘Hijra’, taught by Sumayya Vally & Shumi Bose. Fundamentally, architecture and cinema are both concerned with space—the film programme is a resource which can be used to teach spatial practices. In many South Asian cultures, the word hijra has also been used to signify the ‘third’ gender, comprising eunuchs, transgender or intersex people; in India, the hijra community themselves prefer to use the term ‘kinnar’, a mythological reference referring to those who excel at song, dance and storytelling.