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- A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.
- An aspiring actress falls in love with a big movie star.
- This documentary film aims to highlight the current situation of LGBT people living in The Islamic State of Pakistan. Through interviewing Muslim Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender persons living in Pakistan, we will help them raise their voice all over the world. The World will get to see their everyday life and how they get treated by the society, also exploring what Islam says about homosexuality and what are the rights of LGBT people, if any. We will show public opinion about LGBT people in Pakistan. We will pass a day with a group of transgender persons in the city of Peshawar, exclusively showing interviews of the parents of gay couples living there. Also interviewing locally famous Journalists and human rights activists about legal rights of LGBT community in Pakistan. We will follow the life of transgender, from those who are working as sex workers to those who are fighting for HIV awareness in Trans community and Interviewing HIV patients and talking to their doctors about problems they are facing during treatment. Finally, we will Interview intersex persons and some of those who just had recently successfully changed their gender through a sex change operation.
- A look into the sexual abuse suffered by the children living in the North-Western city of Peshawar in Pakistan.
- About the cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, on a mission to preserve the country's blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death sentence for disrespecting The Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) and life imprisonment for desecrating the Holy Quran.
- Khuda Zameen Se Gaya Nahin promises to be the most ground-breaking creation in the history of Pakistani television. Nothing like this has ever been attempted in terms of content, depth, style and sheer scale on what is a deeply resonating yet sensitive subject.
- The story revolves around the 16/12/2014 Peshawar School attack, role of Pakistani Armed forces in War Against Terrorism also to pay tribute to all the victims and martyrs.
- GHAME AFGHAN was filmed from October 85 to January 86 under extremely difficult conditions in the contested tribal area of Afghanistan/Pakistan by an Afghan-Swiss-Pakistani film crew. Filming took place in the impenetrable mountain ranges near the Khyber Pass, the desert wilderness of Belutshistan and several refugee camps near Peshawar. The film tells the story of an Afghan peasant family getting caught up in the turmoils during the Russian occupation. . The shepherd find a wounded mujahideen and carries him home. The Mujahed dies that night. The dead body is discovered the next day and the shepherd arrested. His family decides to flee to Pakistan. Completely disheartened and destitute, they reach the refugee camp on the other side of the border after days of walking through desert and rocky areas. The family can't get their bearings. They are uprooted. The younger sister is grabbed in the open street and bartered off to a wealthy merchant.
- Film highlighting the negative side of the modern-day social media boom, revolves around a British Pakistani who falls in love with a Peshawar-based girl through the internet and travels back to Pakistan for her.
- Squash champion Hashim Khan's athleticism, shrewdness and Pashtun heritage transformed his family's life and put Pakistan on the world map.
- The play opens with Sikandar, a lawyer by qualification and an aspiring singer entering Sitara's life who is an acclaimed playback singer of the Pakistan film industry. Sitara, on the personal level, is emotionally insecure and having failed at building personal relationships several times back, finds in this boy her love of life and supports him in every possible way to enter the field and realize his dream of becoming a successful singer. Sikandar, an opportunist, exploits the situation and not only does he manage to make himself a niche in the industry but also seizes away Sitara's newly built house, which her family was hankering for, since very long. Still not satiated with her generosity, Sitara goes on a self-imposed exile, giving up her profession; her passion; her singing for Sikandar for he was feeling intimidated by her ever-increasing popularity. What Sikandar has to offer her in return, is to ditch her for another woman- Ashie, who happens to be Sitara's friend. Ashie- the flamboyant film actress and Sikandar's heart and soul, can't stagnate her life with one man and has to move on at all levels and at any cost for as long as she is beautiful and young. All the way through the ebbs and tides of Sitara and Sikandar's relationship, and in her days of deterioration, a film hero and Sitara's friend indeed Iftikhar is there to fall back on, to look after her and help her stand up again. The emotional and psychological complexities of the real life of these four main characters and their internal conflicts lead them to an end which none of them could ever think of.
- This documentary takes us on a journey through time and shows us the splendor of the Buddha Monastery at Takht Bahi, one of the archaeological sites in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan - the cradle of the great Gandhara civilization that once flourished in this part of the world. Starting from the Peshawar Museum, which has the most extensive collection of Gandhara art, we are taken to the sites in an attempt to re-create the times when the place was full of Buddhist Monks who had come from all over the world to seek knowledge and meditate.
- The threat to the bird sanctuary began in 2001, when in order to build the new Hazara university, it was ordered to be removed from Dhodial. The documentary is a collaboration with WWF and UN to save the birds from absolute extinction.
- Pakistan: Education and Women addresses the issues concerning the 75% lapse in the female literacy through human stories of the subjects from Sher Shah Colony, Kando Khan Bozdar and Manchar Lake in Sindh, Maira Kachori in KP, Mandi Faizabad, Hafizababad, and Roranwala in Punjab, and Quetta and Sirala Habibzai Pishin in Baluchistan, and the interviews of the education experts and workers. It examines the issues concerning access, parity, curricula, gender role, culture, tradition, religion, statistics, GDP/budget, and the political will in view of the Article 25-A: Literacy for All, illiteracy explosion since the Partition, and Millennium Development Goal for achieving 100% literacy rate in Pakistan by 2015. The film reflects real issues and authenticity in the form of experiential reality of the subjects and education workers and experts.
- Seven friends, residents of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad set off on a fact-finding mission, to see for themselves if there indeed was a Naya KPK in the making - or was it just another lie by yet another political party?
- In 150 BC, the Greek Hippalos discovered strong monsoons that allowed seafaring using improved Roman wooden ships from the Red and Arab Seas to the spice coast of modern Kerala and back. This enabled trade in what made the subcontinent as rich as silk-home China. Herbal products like peppers, ginger, cardamom and other conservation - and seasoning ingredients, worth up to their weight in gold, plus gems, paid mainly in metals and wine. India's fertile south conserves the Ancient Tamil language and metropolitan capital then, Manduarai. North of the Himalaya, the Kushan tribes formed a now forgotten empire, based on Merw (Turkmenistan), which opened the Silk Route, the main land trade.
- People of Peshawar were interviewed in the show. A diverse ethnic city of Pakistan and the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is known to be an oldest living city in South Asia. Its history can be traced back to 539 BC.