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Indus Blues, another documentary on Pakistan’s folk music claimed the Jury award for Best Documentary Feature. Indus Blues Filmmaker Jawad Sharif’s Indus Blues shows the unique performances of the rarely seen musical instruments used in folk music. Some of these performances feature...

Official selection at South Asian Film Festival of Montréal – SAFFM, Indus Blues heads to Saguenay now. Starting from 15 November , festival is giving another chance to the folks in Quebec to witness the excellence of South Asian cinema. Our film is scheduled on 16...

Back to New York !!! We are thrilled to announce that Indus Blues is coming to NYC again. Officially selected at NYC South Asian Film Festival, our film will be presented on Sunday 17 November at 12pm. Folks, come along...

Another achievement for Indus Blues! We have won the prestigious Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature Award at the South Asian Film Festival of Montréal - SAFFM. Thank you, SAFF Montreal for acknowledging the hard work of our entire team and...

Documentary film festival spotlights free expression at a time when it is under threat across South Asia. Film Southasia is held every two years, and in 2019 the theme of the festival of documentary films says it all: ‘Where the...

Jawad Sharif’s ‘Indus Blues’ begins with a Sarinda player and his son playing music outside a college only to be unceremoniously stopped and told to leave. Upon the movie crew’s insistence to let them film the last Sarinda player of...

A series of European premieres ended up on a high note for Indus Blues as it was screened at WOMEX on 24 October. It was a great honor for us to be presented at world top music festival. Tampere stretched...

Music is universal language and it was clearly evident at Indus Blues Spanish premiere last night at Festival Internacional de Cine Invisible “Film Sozialak” Bilbao. Despite of different culture and language, the soul of our folk music captured hearts of...

Jawad Sharif’s Indus Blues, a documentary that has won awards abroad – on the festival circuit – for its depiction of musical art-forms, fading with indigenous instruments, artists and craftsmen that once belonged to the region on their last leg....