28’, 2019
DIRECTED BY
Liu Gaoli
PRODUCED BY
Liu Gaoli
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Liu Gaoli
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There are many third gender/sex people in the South Asia countries which are widely known as hijra. In Pakistan, the official name is khawaja sara. They are believed to have the special power of blessing people. This film is about a group of thirty khawaja sara who traveled from Punjab to Sindh for participating in the sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s Urs. Their dancing performance, pursuit of religion, ways of collecting money, and the interaction with local people has been recorded.