Pakistani filmmakers are adorning worldwide screens. Director Shehrezad Maher’s current movie The Curfew took stage at Venice Biennale on 4 September.
The movie stars Sathya Sridharan, Balinder Johal, Sara Haider, Rajesh Bose, Chris Thorn and Salwa Khan. It’s produced by Lindsay Blair Goeldner and Meetra Javed. Its cinematography has been performed by Dustin Lane and manufacturing design by Ana Novacic. It’s being distributed by Fae Footage and Child Daal Productions.
The 19-minute movie is about Pakistani American Ayaan who cares for his frailing grandmother. As he does so, the 2 struggle the silence of a language barrier and attempt to be taught one another’s language. The movie exhibits how histories and ghosts from a colonial previous can have an effect on the current.
Shehrezad Maher gained the 2023 Islamic Scholarship Fund’s Nationwide Movie Grant for The Curfew. She is a Karachi primarily based artist and filmmaker and her movies have been screened at establishments and festivals corresponding to Visions du Réel, RIDM, the LA Movie Discussion board, Anthology Movie Archives, UnionDocs, and Experiments in Cinema.
Her characteristic movie script, Concept of Colours, was one of many three tasks chosen for the 2023 Hamptons Movie Screenwriters Lab and obtained the Melissa Mathison Screenwriters Fund and the Cinestory Function Retreat’s Hagan Hicks Underrepresented Ladies’s Voices Scholarship. 
The Curfew was the one Pakistani movie that was screened on the Venice Movie Competition this yr. Beforehand, Saim Sadiq’s Darling screened and gained Greatest Quick Movie on the Venice Movie Competition in 2019.
After the movie’s distribution, it will likely be accessible for streaming on-line.
