Movies: Pakistan

Chronicles from Kashmir seeks to create a sense of “balance”: between differently positioned voices that emerge when speaking about Kashmir; between differently placed narratives on the “victim”/“perpetrator” spectrum. While there is an inevitable st...

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Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, provides an entry point into present-day Karachi, where irredeemable changes feel imminent. While the libraries become a bastion for the literary tradition of Urdu, th...

This documentary from Brave New Foundation and director Robert Greenwald, investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has wit...

Saffron Kingdom is a drama inspired by true events, following Masrat, a Kashmiri woman who, after her husband’s abduction, escapes to America with her son, Rizwan. Settling in Atlanta, they confront the challenges of displacement and the lingering t...

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India....

This documentary film aims to highlight the current situation of LGBT people living in Pakistan....

Lahore, Pakistan. During a whole day, we follow Agha, a little boy who, to survive, collects waste in the street without caring about the world which surrounds him. He makes us share his moods and his vision of the life....

A short film on famine that forms a part of a trilogy of short films (along with Agami by Morshedul Islam and Hooliya by Tanvir Mokammel) that kickstarted the Bangladesh Alternative Film Movement...

In the remote valleys of the Hindu Kush live the Kalash people, the smallest ethnic minority in Pakistan. With a distinct culture and polytheistic religion, they are said to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s troops. But modern life is reaching ...

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Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan....

Presents an overview of Pakistan--its geographic and climatic features, its methods of agricultural and industrial production, and its modes of travel....

Thatta Kedona is a remarkable village in rural Pakistan. Since 1991 36 volunteers from Western countries have visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan are produ...