When we move homes, we consider what to take with us and what to leave behind. Using a single long take, Bye Bye Lullaby explores the meaning of belonging and belongings, transporting and being transported, passing away and passing down.

I grew up learning of the painful stories of 1947, the partition of Pakistan and India, that was accompanied by one of the largest mass migrations in human history. I learned of the unimaginable scale of violence from both sides. I have a vivid memory of listening to a story about dead bodies that my mother saw as a 6-year old in trains going back and forth between India and Pakistan. I was around the same age when she told me. I was playing with a spinning top. I didn't ask my mother to tell me more stories about that time. I knew instinctively that it was too painful for her to recall, and perhaps also too painful for me to hear. My mother died when I was 25 and those untold stories died with her. But I noticed that subconsciously I had begun collecting spinning tops as an adult. By turning to archives, I've re-imagined those stories of forced migration that she never told.

There are things that we keep and things that we are compelled to leave behind. This film is dedicated to those who' have ever experienced the pain and loss of being forced to leave their home.