זד (ריז אחמד, תסריטאי הסרט ומועמד לאוסקר 2021) הוא ראפר בריטי ממוצא פקיסטני העומד לפני רגע הפריצה הגדולה בקריירה. רגע לפני סיבוב ההופעות הגדול הראשון שלו באירופה הוא מגלה לדאבונו שמקננת בו מחלה קשה המאיימת לעצור את המסלול הגדול לו ציפה כל חייו. במקום לחוות את האושר הגדול של ההגשמה העצמית הוא מוצא עצמו במסלול של התמודדויות שונות לגמרי. "מוגלי מוגלי" היא דרמה עוצמתית ומרגשת שזכתה בפרס בפסטיבל ברלין, ומועמדת לזכייה בפרס הבאפט"א (האוסקר הבריטי) בקטגוריית "הסרט הבריטי הטוב של השנה".
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
An in-depth look at the lives and struggles of a fishing community living by the River Titas in Bangladesh after the Partition of India in 1947.
Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition.
The story of two families — one Muslim and one Hindu — living together in India under British rule.
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).
Habibur Rahman’s The River of Partition (Ichamati, 2023) documents this riverine environment, the diverse communities that live around it, and the socio-historical role played by the river in the wake of the partition of India in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.