Still Standing
A character-driven documentary exploring the life and culture of the Sindhi, one of the oldest and least known civilisations in the world. A journey to discover the history of a population that lived peacefully in Sindh, a province of modern-day Pakistan, from approximately 5000 BC until 1947, the year of the partition. The making of modern-day India and Pakistan brought devastating consequences to the Sindhis. Indian Muslims moved from India to Pakistan due to forced expulsion from their community or fearing religious persecution. This fate was shared by a million Hindu Sindhis, who migrated to newly formed India and various nations worldwide for the very same reasons.
Still Standing is the story of those who remained, becoming a minority in their own motherland, as well as the story of those who left, making one of the biggest diasporas of our present. The film was screened in cinemas in Hong Kong, Canary Islands and Italy and presented at the FCC (The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong).
