With 19 filmmakers in the first cohort and 17 in the second, total 36 filmmakers from the two countries have produced 70 films under the framework of Film Talents.
Karachi
Goethe-Institut Pakistan is going to screen some of the top films made in Film Talents program at a local hotel on Friday December 10, 2021.
Since 2017, Goethe-Institut Pakistan’s program ‘Film Talents – Voices from Pakistan and Afghanistan’ has served as a launchpad for emerging filmmakers. Initiated by former Goethe Institut Pakistan director Stefan Winkler and program coordinator Zoya Ahmed the program has boosted careers of dozens of local and Afghani filmmakers.
The films will be screened at Tulip 1 hall, Beach Luxury, Karachi at 6p.m. on Friday, December 10, 2021.
With 19 filmmakers in the first cohort and 17 in the second, total 36 filmmakers from the two countries have produced 70 films under the framework of Film Talents. A number of them have also been screened at international film festivals including Sundance, CPH:DOX, Locarno Film Festival, South Asian International Film Festival, Jaipur Int’l Film Festival and more. A few have also been nominated and won awards at prestigious festivals worldwide.
Hira Nabi’s All That Perishes at the Edge of Land, a short documentary about a poetic conversation between a ship and the shipbreakers at Gadani, has been screened at Sundance Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Film South Asia and Palm Springs Short Fest and has been nominated for American Film Institute (AFI) Docs Award and International Documentary Award by International Documentary Association.
Hamza Bangash’s Dia, a short about mental health, has screened at Locarno Film Festival, Riga International Film Festival, Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival as well as Jaipur International Film Festival.
A Train Crosses the Desert, written and directed by Rahul Aijaz, is a short film about two brothers caught in the struggle of life and death and deals with the topic of euthanasia. It has been screened at 10 festivals worldwide including Kazan International Film Festival (Russia), Jaipur International Film Festival, South Asian International Film Festival.
Sayed Masood Eslami’s ‘Home is not safe’ is a provoking short film about sexual abuse and has won the Vanguard Award at the San Francisco International Short Film Festival. It was also screened at Terni Film Festival in Italy. Meanwhile, Musa Yawari’s impactful short ‘The Deadly Road’ deals with the Hazara killings in Quetta and packs a powerful punch in just under 9 minutes.
A number of Film Talents participants such as Nida Mehboob, Meher Jaffri and Hira Nabi have also made it to the prestigious Berlinale Talents in Germany.
At the premiere event on December 10, Goethe-Institut Pakistan director Ms. Simone Lenz, and German filmmaker and creative producer for all the films produced in Film Talents, are scheduled to share words about the massive success of the program.(PR)
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