Madiha Aijaz’s observational documentary on public libraries in Karachi, Pakistan, provides an entry point into present-day Karachi, where irredeemable changes feel imminent. While the libraries become a bastion for the literary tradition of Urdu, their frequent visitors lament the increasing dominance of English – a residual reminder of colonialism, partition and the ‘globalising’ present. Wrapped in quiet solitude, seated readers are shown hiding away from the hustle and bustle of urban life that can be seen outside.
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A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequenc...
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of...
Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy's frontlines am...
A woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for falling in love becomes a rare survivor of the country's ...
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The parallel stories of four Pakistani immigrants in Greece become the trigger for the director to e...
Pakistani folk artists talk about their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the...
A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as th...
Following a group of climbers attempting to climb K2 in 2009, on the 100-year anniversary of its lan...
Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the lif...
The story of Muhammad Iqbal, a turn of the century poet/philosopher from South Asia. Through Iqbal's...
Since its opening in 1948, The Farnsworth Art Museum has been a source of community pride and a beac...
Sixteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her ...
In Pakistan, veils hide one of the country's most terrible secrets. Driven by revenge, jealousy or s...
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