A Pakistani Filmmaker Tells Some Very Personal Stories Of Partition – And Worries That She’ll Be Shut Down

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s latest work, an art exhibit for the Manchester international festival, brings the 1947 partition of India to full and painful life. She knows it’s intense: “This is personal. It’s an ode to my grandparents’ generation. How did it feel that, when you left your home, it not only stopped being your home, but became part of an enemy country?”