Omi Zola Gupta

Movies

Birdsong
Producer
Birdsong is an intimate portrait of the dying whistled language of the Hmong people in northern Laos
Birdsong
Director
Birdsong is an intimate portrait of the dying whistled language of the Hmong people in northern Laos
Child of Empire
Writer
Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. As the two men unpack their memories, audiences embody the experience of a 7-year-old child at key points in the migration. Child of Empire offers a powerful counter-narrative that lends a fresh perspective on the effects of forced migration on everyday individuals.