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The Land of my Forefathers, dir. Irfan Noor K, Pakistan 2022
These short films explore the environment in its various forms, highlighting the environment as both a fragile ecosystem and a stage for human actions and consequences.
The Land of my Forefathers, dir. Irfan Noor K, Pakistan 2022, Urdu and Baluchi with English subtitles, 19 min.
A filmmaker researching archeological history of Balochistan discovers that the place he comes from has great archeological significance but its largely undocumented. He sets out on a journey to uncover the ancient lost history of his homeland and to understand how and why, these sites and artifacts have been forgotten.
Latika, dir. Shamsul Islam Shopon, Bangladesh 2022, Bengali with English subtitles, 30 min.
Goalbari is a remote village on the banks of the river Chitra in Bangladesh. More than fifty fishermen families of the Malo community call it their home. They have been making livelihood by fishing with otters for six hundred years.
Latika Biswas, wife of a Fisherman Shyam Biswas, is a struggling woman. The family has a tug-of-war with poverty. Latika takes care of the otters like her own children. The otter eats the food and keeps the whole house chirping. Changes in climate and economic tides place immense pressure on this very old human-otter relationship.
Bulhan - The Blind Dolphin, dir. Janan Sindhu, Pakistan 2022, Sindhi, Urdu with English subtitles, 20 min.
Bulhan - The Blind Dolphin is a wildlife conservation documentary centered on the rare Indus Blind Dolphin, a species found exclusively in the fresh waters of Pakistan's Indus River. Known as Bulhan in Sindhi and Seraiki, this endangered mammal faces numerous threats to its survival.
The documentary highlights the critical efforts of the Sindh Wildlife Department Sukkur, in collaboration with WWF-Pak, in the conservation of Bulhan. It takes viewers on an exhilarating journey, showcasing the dramatic rescue of a blind dolphin from the canals back to its home in the River Indus.
The Round Lake, dir. Zayan Agha, Pakistan 2022, Urdu with English subtitles, 12 min.
Set in a dystopia, almost a decade ahead of now, The Round Lake is a short film that revolves around two sisters desperately in search of water to keep themselves alive. It is the latest Pakistani attempt in the area of climate.
Sometimes even the shore drowns, dir. Mahera Omar, Pakistan 2022, Urdu with English subtitles, 17 min.
Inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1955 book The Edge of the Sea, this short film is a cinematic ode to the myriad of marine life on the intertidal mudflats of Karachi. Between the ebb and flow of tides, the city's exposed shoreline is home to a fish that walks on land, the mud crab that clings tenaciously to mangrove tree trunks, the mighty periwinkle, the bubbler crab that spits out sandballs, the long legged egret that fishes, the curlew that stalks fiddler crabs, and the carnivorous marine gastropod mollusks, aka the nudibranchs.
The Land of my Forefathers, dir. Irfan Noor K, Pakistan 2022, Urdu and Baluchi with English subtitles, 19 min.
A filmmaker researching archeological history of Balochistan discovers that the place he comes from has great archeological significance but its largely undocumented. He sets out on a journey to uncover the ancient lost history of his homeland and to understand how and why, these sites and artifacts have been forgotten.
Latika, dir. Shamsul Islam Shopon, Bangladesh 2022, Bengali with English subtitles, 30 min.
Goalbari is a remote village on the banks of the river Chitra in Bangladesh. More than fifty fishermen families of the Malo community call it their home. They have been making livelihood by fishing with otters for six hundred years.
Latika Biswas, wife of a Fisherman Shyam Biswas, is a struggling woman. The family has a tug-of-war with poverty. Latika takes care of the otters like her own children. The otter eats the food and keeps the whole house chirping. Changes in climate and economic tides place immense pressure on this very old human-otter relationship.
Bulhan - The Blind Dolphin, dir. Janan Sindhu, Pakistan 2022, Sindhi, Urdu with English subtitles, 20 min.
Bulhan - The Blind Dolphin is a wildlife conservation documentary centered on the rare Indus Blind Dolphin, a species found exclusively in the fresh waters of Pakistan's Indus River. Known as Bulhan in Sindhi and Seraiki, this endangered mammal faces numerous threats to its survival.
The documentary highlights the critical efforts of the Sindh Wildlife Department Sukkur, in collaboration with WWF-Pak, in the conservation of Bulhan. It takes viewers on an exhilarating journey, showcasing the dramatic rescue of a blind dolphin from the canals back to its home in the River Indus.
The Round Lake, dir. Zayan Agha, Pakistan 2022, Urdu with English subtitles, 12 min.
Set in a dystopia, almost a decade ahead of now, The Round Lake is a short film that revolves around two sisters desperately in search of water to keep themselves alive. It is the latest Pakistani attempt in the area of climate.
Sometimes even the shore drowns, dir. Mahera Omar, Pakistan 2022, Urdu with English subtitles, 17 min.
Inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1955 book The Edge of the Sea, this short film is a cinematic ode to the myriad of marine life on the intertidal mudflats of Karachi. Between the ebb and flow of tides, the city's exposed shoreline is home to a fish that walks on land, the mud crab that clings tenaciously to mangrove tree trunks, the mighty periwinkle, the bubbler crab that spits out sandballs, the long legged egret that fishes, the curlew that stalks fiddler crabs, and the carnivorous marine gastropod mollusks, aka the nudibranchs.
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