Archive: Year 2022
International Shorts
Sandstorm
Mulaqat
Director
Seemab Gul
Producers
Abid Aziz Merchant
Jemima Khan
Mehnaz Diwan
Cinematographer
Alberto Balazs
Editors
Raluca Petre
Seemab Gul
Sound
Faiz Zaidi
Website
Contact
Sayonara Film
Via de Coltelli, 5
40124 Bologna (BO) Italy
[email protected]
+39 346 2472176
2021
Pakistan
20 min
Color
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi (Pakistan), shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her. Caught between his manipulative behaviour and the desire to experience love on her own terms, Zara searches for the strength to reject the confines of a patriarchal society.
Director
Seemab Gul is an award-winning writer/director and producer from Pakistan. She is an alumna of the Locarno OD Producers Lab, Biennale College Cinema and Berlinale Talents, and a graduate of the London Film School. Her documentary Zahida, was broadcast on Al Jazeera and won the Audience Award at Tasveer SAFF. Her films have screened in Uppsala, FNC Montreal, Dok Leipzig, Sheffield Doc Fest, Geneva Contemporary Art Centre and many international festivals. Her short film Sandstorm (Mulaqat) premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival and in competition at Sundance 2022.
Other films in International Shorts
Airhostess-737
Blue Has No Dimensions
Cherries
Chords
Contrapunctus V
Dance my doll
Datsun
Duka Lara
Granny's Sexual Life
Lili Alone
Lori – Melancholy of My Mother’s Lullaby
Love & Revenge
Memoir of a Veering Storm
Nightwalker
North Pole
Penalty Shot
See You Garbage!
Shark
Sideral
Sikiitu
Sound of the Night
The Distance of Time
The Eternal Melody
The Land of Milk and Honey
The Saboteur
Trinou
Warsha
Will My Parents Come to See Me
Women Visiting a City
Showtimes
10 Aug @ 22:00
11 Aug @ 18:00
