Lahore December 09 (Online): Divvy Film Festival opened at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts on Thursday. The festival will go on till Sunday 12 December.
“During three-day event, around 58 brilliant films would be screened in Islamabad and Lahore. Divvy Film Festival in Lahore will run from December 16 to 19.
PNCA is striving hard for the revival of film and cinema in Pakistan by taking various steps to give it strength so it could stand on its own. The film diploma course announced by PNCA is also a move forward in this direction,” PNCA Director General Hasnain Raza said while addressing participants of the ceremony.
The Festival focuses on independent Pakistani films and includes feature films, short films, documentaries and animated films.
The first film screened was Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sitara, 2019 Sitara takes the audience on a journey through the old city of Lahore in the 1970s, where a fourteen-year-old girl called Pari dreams of becoming a pilot. Pari’s story is told through the perspective of her six-year-old sister, who like the audience is unaware of the traditions and barriers that lay in the paths of women from this family.
This is the story of three young people from the area of Lyari in Karachi–an area that is known for being one of the most conflict-ridden parts of the city.
However, Lyari is also one of the oldest, most diverse and vibrant parts of the city. Each of the young people featured in this documentary are pushing gender boundaries in their own unique ways.
Haya Fatima Iqbal, The Sky is Far, The Earth is Tough, 2021 Shahbano, Zarb Ali and Nusrat are all residents of district Ghizer, which is one the most prone districts to climate disasters and is host to a simmering mental health crisis. It has had the highest rates of suicides in the past seven years.
The film explores how climate change has an impact on the mental health of mountain communities affected by climate disasters, through a human lens. Nauman Khalid, One Way Glass, 2021‘One-way Glass’ is the story of a hapless migrant Pakistani woman trapped in a violent loveless marriage. The film follows her path to freedom via the revelation that her husband, like her, leads a clandestine parallel life.
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