Like Sisters Separated at Birth (2022) is an experimental travelogue that explores the intersection of serial-migration, identity, & intergenerational + neoteric trauma, vis-à-vis a visible Muslim Indo-Guyanese woman raised in the US. Videoed during Raqeebah Zaman’s travels in early 2020, and using excerpts from her journals written prior and during her voyage, Raqeebah weaves together a deeply personal film. Through subtexts she explores and connects a timeline of histories: colonialism, indentureship, and militarism – that has directly and indirectly affected her lived experiences; and we are reminded that histories don’t simply cease. Like Sisters Separated at Birth (2022) is also concurrently informed by the notion of interconnectedness between peoples of the Global South and their diaspora.
Like Sisters Separated at Birth (2022) had its World Premier at the critically acclaimed Third Horizon Film Festival in Miami, Florida. It also had its Guyana premier at the Timehri Film Festival at the historic Castellani House in Georgetown, Guyana.