Documentaries

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Sakina, a student of Mashal Model School. She believes that through education women can change the world and while she strives to do the same, her passion for cricket guides her through life pushing through all obstacles that come her way. Had it not been for Mashal Model School, Sakina would have had a very different life. This profound young girl is the captain of the girl’s cricket team, she wears her dupatta like a superhero cloak, ready to take on the world, one sixer at a time.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Aneela Naz – Aneela reflects on the way that the Police force has changed as a working space for women and welcomes new lady police officers to the force wholeheartedly. In a country where women in uniform are an oddity, Aneela shines bright.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

The Colossal Buddha, journeys from Peshawar to Zurich. In its 2000 years of staying in the Gandaharan Region, this monumental statue has been fixed to a wall in the Peshawar Museum since the past 80 years. Tobias Holtz, a stone conservator, and restorer from Switzerland, guides a team of Pakistani packing company, who have never done something like this before.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Sicchin Gul and Shamsulrabbi revisit the horrors of the night the floods came to Kalash Valley to rock their lives. They speak of unimaginable devastation and resilience. Shamsulrabbi explains how the Protection Walls and Check Dams have facilitated their village and kept them safe. Sicchin Gul reflects on the benefits of the washing plains which have made the lives of the women in Kalash Valley much easier.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Three men hailing from the village in Lower Bela, Chail Valley revisit the night the flood came, their lives after and the journey they have taken since then. Together they tell a story of how a training can not just change how a community reacts to disaster, rather completely rewire the way they respond to accidents and carry out rescue. This story is a great example how effective trainings and community mobilization can be, in studying the spill over effects years after it took place.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

In an innocent retelling of the one life lesson that Gul Bostan learnt during his days being trained under the Tutti Frutti project, Mr. Bostan tells the importance of learning to be truthful as an industry, and how that singlehandedly changed the way fruits were sold and marketed in Swat.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

The Buddha then returns to Pakistan to be put back in its place by Tobias along with his team in Pakistan.

Success Stories Project - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

The SDC showreel is an overview of the areas in which SDC operated in Pakistan over the past 5 decades. It is a message that celebrates the Switzerland Pakistan partnership while hoping that it will continue in the future. It also can function as a trailer to the success stories series as it is an opportunity to introduce the characters from the other documentaries.

We the People, We the Arts- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Mahnoor takes us on a journey into her artworld where she sources inspiration for her art from the death of her father and how her world changed after. She speaks of inequality, patriarchal mindsets and social injustice through her work.

We the People, We the Arts- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Sanaullah empathises with the birds that lose their homes due to deforestation in Pakistan. He translates this pain on the canvas, as he believes that he can be the voice for those who cannot speak for themselves.

We the People, We the Arts- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Director and Producer

Alizey bases her art in the words and wisdom of the Sufi poet, Baba Bhulley Shah. She believes in quality education and that it begins from the womb. Her work explores fetuses in bright colors.