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Pakistan Zindabad: Long Live Pakistan (2008)

aka: Pakistan Zindabad: Longue Vie Au Pakistan

Director

Pascale Lamche

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 153 minutes), £24.99

Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of Pakistan, this video identifies the keys to understanding the country’s present through its political history. Ever since its creation in 1947,...

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Pathans, The (1980 Film, Video)

Director

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Bound by a common language and heritage and a fundamental belief in Islam, the Pathans have never acknowledged the political boundaries imposed by the states in which they live. Today the Pathans are...

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Silent Waters (2006)

Director

Sabiha Sumar

Subject

Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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Iqbal: One or Two Things I Know About Him (1994)

Director

Nasser Aslam

Subject

Literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £30.00

A dramatic entry into the dreamscape of Muhammad Iqbal, poet/philosopher of the Indian subcontinent and spiritual founder of the separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

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Blood of Hussain, The

Director

Jamil Dehlavi

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 min; 51 min), £19.99

Political, subversive and artistically maverick, Pakistan’s leading filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi’s body of work stands out for its originality and engagement with social and political questions. His vision...

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Amir (1986 Video)

Director

John Baily

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Amir, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, tells his story through music. His work with other musicians and his precarious existence as a refugee are at the centre of the film.

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Child Labour (1995 Video)

Producer

Daniel Schechter

Subject

Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

Investigates child labour in Pakistan, and features 12-year-old activist Iqbal Masih - tragically shot while the film was being completed. Despite the fact that virtually every country has now ratified...

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Last Prophet (2002)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 min), £17.99

A portrait of Nusrat who produced a contemporary interpretation of the qawwali, the Moslem chanting song emanating from the belief of the Sufis. It comes from Pakistan and combines traditional Persian poetic...

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Partition (2007)

Director

Ken McMullen

Subject

Film Studies; History; Literature; Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 78 minutes), £12.99

An intense drama based around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the transfer of power from British to Indian hands. Based on Saadat Hussan Manto’s famous short story about partition,...

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Kalasha, The: Rites of Spring (1990 Video)

Director

John Sheppard

Producer

John Sheppard

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the small Kalasha tribe who live in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan, the last people of the region to have resisted conversion to Islam. Their relgion is is closely connected with an alpine...

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