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Delighted to announce the recipients of the inaugu

Delighted to announce the recipients of the inaugural Divvy Awards ✨✨ ✨🤩Congratulations to Roohi Kashfi whose film B for Naoo by was awarded the Divvy Jury Award; to Usman Mukhtar whose film Gulabo Rani was given the Divvy Team Award and Ali Mehdi whose film Intezar Farmaiye was awarded the Divvy Audience Award! ✨🤩 Each film will be awarded PKR 75,000✨ Our gratitude to our Jury - Zebunnisa Hamid, Kanwal Khoosat, Farjad Nabi & Husain Qaizar - who selected the Divvy Jury Award, to our audiences for choosing the Divvy Audience Award and to our team for the Divvy Team Award. Our collaborators Karachi Literature Festival, Alhamra Arts Council and the Pakistan National Council of te Arts. Our thanks to our generous sponsors for the festival in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad - the Embassy of the Republic of Germany, Embassy of France, Newage Cables, Unity Foods, Changan Auto, and our hospitality partner Hashoo Group. @newagecables @changanpakistan @embassyfrancaispakistan @hashoohotels @alhamralac @alhamra_art_gallery @unityfoodpk @pnca.official @khi_isb_lit_fests @germanyinpak Design: Zahra Jadoon @zahrajadun
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Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad Day 3 Sunday 1

Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad
Day 3 Sunday 19 March Creative Downfall of Pakistani Cinema - Tabish Shargo
Pakistan Film Industry was once renowned for its films. This documentary explores this by asking questions from the filmmakers who are still working at Evernew Studio Lahore, one of the oldest film studios in Pakistan. Tasweer - Suleman Afzal
The story about the circle of empowerment, and how it is manipulated for personal interests The Valleys Our Ancestors Chose - Tazeen Bari
In 2015, devastating ﬂoods destroyed fields, homes and Kalashas’ livelihoods, threatening the very existence of Pakistan’s smallest indigenous community. We document the annual harvest festival, which this summer was followed by the historic ﬂoods that inundated much of Pakistan. Noor - Umer Adil
This film highlights the stigma in Pakistan around weak eyesight and causally sheds light on the impact these stereotypes have on children and shows how this pressure aﬀects their personality. Murder Tongue - Ali Sohail Jaura
In a family where people seldom speak, can our mother tongue protect us? Or does it have us ‘murdered’? A Life in Silence - Halimah Tariq
Follow the story of Shakila Farooq, the first woman in Mardan to take a stand for educating hearing and speech impaired girls. Experience her journey as a mother who had to struggle to educate her own daughter as she battled hearing disability. Saya (Shadow)- Fawzia Mirza & Anam Abbas
In an unexpected turn of conversation between a wealthy, American born, Pakistani Mem Saab and her new driver, Abdul Malik, the city of Karachi’s mysteries and fault lines take physical form. Gulabo Rani - Usman Mukhtar
A young boy, Akhtar, is accepted into a 150 year old university and due to an administrative ﬂuke, he finds himself housed in the dilapidated "Wing C" of the dorms. During his initial interactions with students, he becomes aware of the stories of haunting and despair that are associated with the long abandoned wing.

Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad Day 2 - Satur

Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad
Day 2 - Saturday 18 March A Dream Within a Dream- Haider Bhatti
Its an art ﬁlm, we all live with a hope or with a dream and this life which we don't know if its stimulation or a dream or what. nothing is real. We are living in dreams within dreams; maybe when we die we wake up someplace. A Forest in Peril - Tariq Alexander Qaiser
Tariq Alexander Qaiser is on a mission to save the mangrove forests of Karachi. The need to create a Nature reserve on the Islands of Karachi is urgent for the wellbeing of its citizens. This a part of Tariq’s journey Dhoom ki Dunya - Olivia Qasir
A look into the unique world of a local Pakistani circus troupe, with unorthodox characters who hold onto their generational talents, and keep pushing on despite the country's poverty and conservatism. FIVE STARS - Mehroz Amin
A young girl leaves her home to follow her heart only for it to be broken, and a chance encounter with her taxi driver restores her faith in kindness. Women & Climate Change - Soch Videos
How is climate change altering Pakistan's geography, and who is it aﬀecting the most? This documentary tells the story of women who have been displaced and forced to migrate due to climate change. ABBA - Uzair Surhio
An ambitious girl has to give up on her dreams to take care of her ailing father. Mehram: A Tale of Lost Love - Hamza Maya
This is a tale of Love. It is about a journey of a village girl who leaves her home in the middle of the night in search of a path to meet her lover to live an independent life with her lover who lives in a diﬀerent city and face all the hardships alone in this voyage of ﬁnding her lover. This Stained Dawn - Anam Abbas
Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, facing Pakistan’s radical religious right. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is about the act of political organising itself.

Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad Friday 17 Marc

Divvy Film Festival 2023, Islamabad
Friday 17 March 2023 Expedition Indus 2022, Wajahat Malik
A group of intrepid adventurers decide to raft down the length of the Mighty Indus to document how the ‘river of life’ is currently faring in face of environmental degradation and human intervention. This is the story of that journey. Fatima jinnah: Prologue by Aur | Digital -Danial K. -Afzal
3 seasons; 3 eras; encapsulates a rather heroic yet systematic life of an aristocratic socio-
political ﬁgure, Fatima Jinnah, popularly known as the mother of a nation. The series assesses the staunch Fatima Jinnah's role in making herself the madr - e - millat through the visual lense of the colonial 'new woman' Ways of Seeing - Seema Iqbal & Sehrish Kanwal
This is the story of a visually impaired brother(muhammad Raﬁ) and a sister(Ayesha). Ayesha got bullied at school and dropped out. Raﬁ got encouragement and found himself being the f irst blind student from their area attending Karakoram international university. He navigates his life with easiness from cricket to music to academia. Meanwhile his sister remains behind at home. Listen - Hamza Farooq
Just another day in life of a teacher who continues to believe in the people
of her country. Intezar Farmaiye [Stay Tuned] - Ali Mehdi
A look through the years of Pakistani history told via a family and what they see/experience through their TV. Unworthy - Farzeen Aziz
In the unyielding society of Pakistan, Saima, a transgender craves a normal life. Cast out at the age of twenty-four when her mother passed away and her sole protector remained no more.
Freedom for her is living and dressing as she pleases which can only be done through migration overseas. Zibahkhana - Omar Ali Khan
Pakistan's ﬁrst splatter ﬂick, in the tradition of Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, delivers spine-tingling thrills when an attractive group of teens pile into a van that runs out of gas in the middle of a dark, mysterious forest. But when a mysterious ﬁgure dressed in a blood-drenched burqa appears sporting a medieval weapon dripping in gore, even the teen's prayers won't save them from a night of savage, demented terror.

Super excited to announce✨Divvy Film Awards ✨-

Super excited to announce✨Divvy Film Awards ✨- stay tuned we are releasing the results on Sunday 19 March 2023

Foundation Art Divvy and the Pakistan National Cou

Foundation Art Divvy and the Pakistan National Council of the Arts are delighted to present Divvy Film Festival in Islamabad for the third year! Please join us for our program of films on Friday 17 - Sunday 19 March 2023 at the outdoor amphitheatre, PNCA, 6:15 - 11:00 pm. ✨(Swipe for our schedule of films!) ✨ Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema.🇵🇰📽 In an effort to expand Pakistani art, culture and narrative’s global reach, as well as transform local attitudes towards the creative fields, Foundation Art Divvy provides a platform at an institutional level, locally and internationally to the arts and film of Pakistan. In addition to an annual large scale institutional exhibition, its latest venture has been the ✨Divvy Film Festival✨, celebrating independent Pakistani cinema, and that of its diaspora. 🍿 Our gratitude to all our filmmakers. Our collaborator, the Pakistan National Council of the Arts. Our thanks to our generous sponsors for the festival In Islamabad - the Embassy of France, Newage Cables, Changan Auto, Unity Foods and our hospitality partner Hashoo Group. And of course to you - our audience. Thank YOU for your support. We are very happy with the response to Divvy Film Festival in Karachi and Lahore! Islamabad is the final location for Divvy Film Festival 2023. Thank you very very much for your support and love ! 💛 We believe it is imperative to support independent film and filmmakers locally, and do so in a strong, consistent manner. @newagecables @changanpakistan @embassyfrancaispakistan @hashoohotels @pnca.official @unityfoods Design: Zahra Jadoon @zahrajadun #filmfrompakistan #filmfestival #divvyfilmfestival #animation #film #shortfilm #featurefilm #artfilm

Sunday 5 March 2023 Ali Mehdi & Soch Videos, Haz

Sunday 5 March 2023 Ali Mehdi & Soch Videos, Hazara Parkour: The Freerunners of Quetta, 2021
When the roads to Hazara Town are sealed and to be cautious is the only way to survive — the Hazara youth find their escape in the extreme sport, parkour. This is their story: The Free Runners of Quetta. Jaffar Raza Jafri, Pakeeza, 2022
The relationship between a responsible boy and his precocious younger sister becomes strained when an unspoken truth dares to surface. Daniyal Yousaf, Fankaar, 2022
Darashiko, a musician and budding filmmaker, invites a former bosom friend, Aurangzeb, to his house after years of no contact. Darashiko's partner and mentor Babar resents this intrusion. Joshinder Chaggar, More Than Cute, 2022
A seniors Bollywood dance class in Melbourne city, is the perfect intercultural setting, to discover new friendships and to unpack misconceptions about ageing. Uzair Surhio & Afreen Zehra, Unseen
Film depicts the life of Christian Community involved in manual scavenging in Pakistan, where only Christians are supposed to do the dirty work. Fatima Najeeb, Tamashayi, 2022
Adeel is a regular guy who witnesses incidents of misogyny, discrimination and perversion towards women by his male friends, family members and colleagues, however, he does not take part in them. An unforeseen event forces him to reconsider his approach. Amjad Ali Hunza, Balda, 2022
The lack of rescue services brings tragedies to the local porters. Ali Sattar, Talish, 2022
A surreal psychological thriller about a very powerful businessman who is trapped in a shack in the middle of a desert. Will he be able to escape? Will he come to terms with his reality?

Saturday 4 March 2023 Zayan Agha, The Round Lake

Saturday 4 March 2023 Zayan Agha, The Round Lake, 2022
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. Haseeb ur Rehman & Puffball Studios, Rest in Paper, 2022
An absurd story following a person trying to find his way back to his home. Laced with irony, Rest in Paper is about the back and forth journey of people who were displaced from their homes during the Indo-Pak partion. Payal Arya, An Intangible Claim, 2022
The film questions the right to claim and own land. It metaphorically ties together the two phenomena of partition and reclamation. Traversing through her memories, my Naani (grandmother) attempts to hold onto the ancestral home she was forced to leave behind. Her yearning is embodied by the sea that surges in claiming the land that was once its own. Mahnoor Euceph, Eid Mubarak, 2022
Iman, a privileged Pakistani girl, goes with her family to buy a goat, as is the tradition in Pakistan before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha. Nayentara Abu Fazal, Cultivating Fields, 2022
With more and more natural forests felled to meet worldwide demand for consumer products, thousands of species could see much of their habitat lost to farmland. This story is a depiction of the impacts of this agriculture expansion. The fallow deer wanders into a farmland where farmers are cultivating a new kind of field. Murad Yaseen, Dargat, 2020
Fourteen-year-old is a new student at the high school. However, his excitement is taken away when he finds himself surrounded by four grown bullies. He can't stand up to them, nor can he complain about the brutality they are causing him, fearing he might be called names. And the only exit that he sees now is freedom. Anya Raza, Still Here, 2022
Still Here follows Omar's journey through trauma towards healing. It is inspired by the clients and work of the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) – which aims to eradicate and heal the wounds of torture globally. Sarmad Khoosat, Kamli, 2022
A young married girl has been waiting for her husband to return for the past 8 years as she lives with her blind sister-in-law.

Friday 3 March 2023 Zahra Ehsan, Footnotes on a

Friday 3 March 2023 Zahra Ehsan, Footnotes on an Arranged Meeting, 2023
This is a feel-good, humorous short film about a meeting between Daneen and Ifran. Both are from Pakistan but based in Finland, Amber Arifeen, The Tarantata, 2022
The project is a short documentary film that contextualizes seven dances performed by the artist, Amber Arifeen, in seven different locations across the region of Puglia, in Southern Italy, in October of 2021. Maleeha Durrani, Pukhto, 2022
A Pashtun father must choose between his honor and the life of his teenage daughter, who is raped by the landlord's son. Mahera Omar, Sometimes even the shore drowns, 2022
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. Soch Videos, The Legend of Pir Mangho, 2019
Manghopir in Karachi is famous for being home to the shrine of Sufi Saint, Pir Mangho. This documentary explores the mystical tale of the Sufi Saint and the crocodile disciples he left behind. Usman Mukhtar, Gulabo Rani, 2023
A young boy, Akhtar, is accepted into a 150 year old university and due to an administrative fluke, he finds himself housed in the dilapidated "Wing C" of the dorms. Sameen Sehr, Udari, 2022
Shafeeq is a 10 years old homeless boy who begs. One afternoon as his friend is begging and Shafeeq sitting morosely on a road divider; A balloon floats towards Shafeeq giving him the flight of his life. Mashal Baloch, Matekulli (Coal Sorting), 2021
This short documentary explores the lives of children working in the coal mines of Mach, Balochistan. Mehroz Amin, Kalashnikov, 2022
Kalashnikov is a film dedicated to the great superstars of the 80s era of Lollywood. Shayhaq Baloch, CHAMM (The Trick), 2021
In search for bread for his family, a common young Afghan man dares to trick the superpower, in a war ridden world, he makes war his economy, he makes a trap for US drones.

Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are

Foundation Art Divvy and Alhamra Arts Council are very happy to present Divvy Film Festival in Lahore. Please join us for our program of films on Friday 3 - Sunday 5 March 2023 at Alhamra Arts Council, 6:15 - 10:30 pm. Presented by Foundation Art Divvy, Divvy Film Festival is an annual festival of independent Pakistani cinema.🇵🇰📽 In an effort to expand Pakistani art, culture and narrative’s global reach, as well as transform local attitudes towards the creative fields, Foundation Art Divvy provides a platform at an institutional level, locally and internationally to the arts and film of Pakistan. In addition to an annual large scale institutional exhibition, its latest venture has been the ✨Divvy Film Festival✨, celebrating independent Pakistani cinema, and that of its diaspora. 🍿 Our gratitude to all our filmmakers. Our collaborator Alhamra Arts Council. Our thanks to our generous sponsors for the festival In Lahore - the Embassy of France, Newage Cables, Changan Auto, and our hospitality partner Hashoo Group. And of course to you - our audience. Thank YOU for your support. We are very happy with the response to Divvy Film Festival in Karachi! And Divvy Film Festival will continue to Islamabad - more information to be released soon! We believe it is imperative to support independent film and filmmakers locally, and do so in a strong, consistent manner. @newagecables @changanpakistan @embassyfrancaispakistan @hashoohotels @alhamralac @alhamra_art_gallery Design: Zahra Jadoon @zahrajadun #filmfrompakistan #filmfestival #divvyfilmfestival #animation #film #shortfilm #featurefilm #artfilm

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