Going Home

For many Sikh families in America, Pakistan is not a foreign country. It is where their grandparents were born, where their ancestors built Gurdwaras and farmed land and made lives, before Partition split the subcontinent in 1947 and sent millions of people across borders with whatever they could carry. This film follows a group of American Sikhs returning to those places, walking through villages and sacred sites that exist now in a different country and a different world.

The emotional weight of these visits is difficult to overstate. These are people standing in places they have never been but that are embedded in their family stories, looking at structures their ancestors built and that now belong to a history they can visit but not claim. Going Home is not a political film about Partition, though Partition is everywhere in it. It's a film about the human experience of loss and memory, about what survives across generations, and about why some journeys can only be taken in person.