Jawad

With his award-winning documentary Indus Blues, director Jawad Sharif asks the important question about the future of culture, music, tradition and how this regional heritage is disappearing. As this piece is being written, Coke Studio 12 is getting ready to...

Another successful premiere !!! Thank you Berlin for showing up at Doku.Arts – Internationales Festival fürFilme zur Kunst for Indus Blues screening. It was so encouraging to see the interest of international audiences in our folk culture and music. Followed...

جرمن دارالحکومت برلن میں 'ڈوکو آرٹس' فلم فیسٹول میں دریائے سندھ کے گرد بسنے والی ثقافتوں کے لوک ساز اور فنکاروں کے بارے میں ’انڈس بلیوز‘ نامی ایک دستاویزی فلم کا جرمن پریمیئر منعقد کیا جا رہا ہے۔ ’انڈس بلیوز‘...

Jawad Sharif is an award winning filmmaker, who has two amazing documentaries under his belt. He studied film making from  UCLA, the Swedish Institute and Institut Fur Auslandsbeziehunge, Germany Jawad is also the founder of Bipolar Films. The documentary which...

We asked some of the directors whose films are being screened at this year's Dokuarts festival, to record audio postcards for us, detailing a bit more information about their films. We'll be releasing them during the duration of the festival....

Friends, The All Pakistan Music Conference Karachi has brought Indus Blues to your city. In association with Alliance Francaise de Karachi, our film is scheduled for screening on Saturday 19 October 2019 at 8:30pm. Folks who haven't watched it yet...

Part of Canada's blues festival now!!! Indus Blues will be presented by SFU Vancouver Centre for comparative Muslim studies in the ethnically rich city of Vancouver, Canada this weekend on 12 October, 2019 at 12:30pm. Folks in west coast British...

Good News !!! Friends in Tampere, our film will be screened at WOMEX , two days in a row. While Finland premiere is going to be held on 24 October, second screening is scheduled on 25 October at "Arthouse cinema...

The twelfth issue of DOKUARTS covers 25 documentary films from 17 countries, including Brazil, China, Iran, Lebanon, Mexico and Pakistan. All of the works, more than half of which were created by filmmakers or act as female artists, will be screened...

All the hardships we have endured, all the efforts we have put in, all the difficulties we have been through ; it all makes tremendous sense now.We are so grateful to the amazing audience at 6th Islamabad Literature Festival who came to...