Jole dobe na
Those Who Do Not Drown
May not be used for Social Media

Jole dobe na | Those Who Do Not Drown by Naeem Mohaiemen
IND, JPN, SWE 2020, Forum Expanded
© Naeem Mohaiemen
May not be used for Social Media

Jole dobe na | Those Who Do Not Drown by Naeem Mohaiemen
IND, JPN, SWE 2020, Forum Expanded
© Naeem Mohaiemen
May not be used for Social Media
With
- Sagnik Mukherjee (Jyoti)
- Kheya Chattopadhyay (Sufiya)
- Trina Nileena Banerjee (Voice of Sufiya)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Naeem Mohaiemen |
Cinematography | Basab Mullick |
Editing | Naeem Mohaiemen, Chandan Biswas |
Music | Qasim Naqvi, Ali Sehir |
Sound Design | Sukanta Majumdar |
Production Design | Prithwiraj De |
Casting | Debleena Sen, Priyanka Dasgupta |
Assistant Director | Moinak Guho |
Commissioned by | Bildmuseet Umea, SwedenYokohama Triennale, Japan |
Producer | Naeem Mohaiemen |
Produced by
Shobak Films
New York, USA
Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, photography, and installations to research the idea of socialism, incomplete decolonization, shifting borders, and unreliable memory. Despite underscoring a historic left tendency toward misrecognition of allies, a hope for a future transnational left as the only possible alternative to current cages of race and religion is a basis for the work. He was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, 2018 Turner Prize finalist, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Herb Alpert Award. His films have been programmed at film festivals internationally. He is the author of “Midnight’s Third Child” (Nokta, forthcoming) and “Prisoners of Shothik Itihash” (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), as well as co-editor of several other volumes. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions and biennales around the world and is housed in the permanent collections of Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London, among others. He has a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University.
Filmography
2004 Disappeared in America: Patriot Story; with Jawad Metni, 7 min. · Disappeared in America: Lingering Twenty; with Sehban Zaidi, 5 min. 2005 Disappeared in America: Fear of Flying; with Ajana Malhotra, 9 Min. 2006 Disappeared in America: Invisible Man; 5 min. 2009 SMS Iran (After Gilles Peress); with Mary Walling Blackburn, 9 min. · Nayak (Lost Hero of History); 6 min. 2011 Der Weisse Engel; 8 min. 2012 White Teeth (Your Mysterious Neighbors); 4 min. · United Red Army (The Young Man Was, Part 1); 70 min. 2013 Rankin Street, 1953; 7 min. · Sharjah Barbershop 2014 Afsan’s Long Day (The Young Man Was, Part 2); 40 min. 2015 Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3); 82 min. 2016 Abu Ammar is Coming; 6 min., Forum Expanded 2016 · The Company Fatah; 7 min. 2017 Century's Container · Tripoli Cancelled; 93 min. · Two Meetings and a Funeral; Videoinstallation, 88 min. 2020 Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021