Films
Sandstorm ملاقات
Producer | Writer | Director
Fiction, 20 minutes (2021)
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi, shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her.
78 Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica
2022 Sundance Film Festival
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Zahida زاہدہ
Director | Writer | Producer | Executive Producer
Documentary, Digital, Colour, 30 min. 2018
A window into the life of the first female taxi driver in Pakistan. Zahida is a fascinating insight into the personal and professional trials undertaken by a unique woman.
Metaphysiques
Channel 4 Random Acts commission
Director | Writer | Producer | Executive Producer
Art film, Digital, Colour, 3 min. 2015
Entangled bodies of ambiguous gender are engaged in combative exploration of each other's boundaries. The work aims to challenge preconceived notions of femininity, power, strength and heroic eroticism.
One Day in Whitechapel
Arts Council England commission
Producer | Writer | Director
Drama, Colour, Super 16mm, 13 min. 2015
Two teenagers start their day on the opposite sides of the barricades during a racist demonstration in Whitechapel, East London. When Sam watches her friends beat a young skinhead, instead of joining the fight, she saves the boy. An unlikely friendship sparks when the two teenagers are stuck in a shed hiding from threats outside.
Towards a Militant Conceptualism
Arts Council England commission
Director | Writer | Producer
Film Essay, Super 16mm & DV, Black & White, 13 min. 2013
The film explores the director’s personal experiences of protest, dealing with agents of the State and questioning the origins of law. It’s an open argument on protest and its relationship to art, with the proposition of art as a medium of the former.
Price of Freedom
Project developed at NFTS Film Clinic, UK & AniDox, Denmark
Director | Writer | Producer
Animated documentary, Super 8 and DV, 3 min. 2013
Two sisters write to each other between Karachi and London. One ran away from home in London and the other stayed with her family that return-ed to Pakistan.