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Sindhustan
The story of the largest migration of a culture in history told through ink (tattoos)
A film by Sapna Bhavnani
Discussants
64 mins | 2019 | English Hindi and Sindhi with English Subtitles
Synopsis
‘Sindhustan’ is the story of the largest migration of a culture in history told through ink (tattoos). Sapna interviewed people from the Sindhi community, and turned their stories into tattoos on her legs, thus becoming a human map. Over a span of 10 days of non-stop pain, she turned into a human map of Partition, a museum of memory.
View the film trailer here.
“A bit like looking through the magical lens of a kaleidoscope – each time your eyes shift, or your perspective changes, there is new information. Sometimes disconcerting, sometimes sheer poetry.” – Deepa Mehta
Sindhustan has won the Best Feature Documentary at NYIFF, AIFF, IFF Stuttgart, MISAFF, Caleidoscope Boston, Los Angeles Motion Picture Awards, MIFF and An Official Selection at LAHFF, MAMI, VISAFF, CHALTA PHIRTA DOC FESTIVAL, 50th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka, Asia Peace Film Festival, and RETH.
The director will be present at the screening.
Discussants
Sapna Bhavnani
Roohi Dixit
Roohi Dixit is a film director, producer and scriptwriter based in Bangalore, India. She runs a production house along with her creative partner Ziba Bhagwagar, called Zero Rules. In keeping with the name of their production house, they continue to explore genres of filmmaking and storytelling through various mediums both fiction and nonfiction. Her acclaimed documentary Scattered Windows, Connected Doors (2013) which she directed conceptualized and produced along with her creative partner features Sapna Bhavnani as one of the protagonists along with others. Zero Rules is currently in the process of script development for a fiction and a nonfiction project.
