In a remote mountain range in Pakistan, Aniqa Bano gives birth to a deaf girl, Narjis.
2023 · 1h18m · Spain
Urdu
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About the Film
In a remote mountain range in Pakistan, Aniqa Bano gives birth to a deaf girl, Narjis. Suddenly, a world of stigma and prejudice is revealed, in which a raft of social obstacles need to be navigated. Nearly two decades later, Narjis reads her mother’s diaries and narrates a journey through the Baltistan region, where Aniqa has built a school and a home for deaf people. The fight for the rights of her own daughter is coupled with the fight for the rights of everyone in her community. Here, they not only receive education and respect but also discover a world of possibilities and rights to which they can aspire. Delicately explored and deftly crafted, Flying Hands is a story of commitment and how integration and equal opportunities for everyone directly benefit the co-existence of society.
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About the Director
Marta Gómez
Screenwriter, director, producer and script consultant. Since 2008, she’s a member of the selection committee for the script residency Plume & Pellicule (Switzerland), where she accompanies throughout the process from writing to screen, projects such as “Una Madre” and “Vestido de Novia”, among others. She has written fiction for film and television and collaborated in the areas of scriptwriting and production of projects in Spain, Australia, Central America and France. She has worked as a jury and advisor for Proimagenes Colombia and has been a teacher of the MA in Creative Writing at the National University of Bogotá. An the beginning of 2020, she joined Al Borde films, where she co-wrote and co-directed with Paula Iglesias both feature films “Fabricando mujeres 2.0” and “Northern Wildness” and the short film “Hondarrak”.
Other films by Marta Gómez
Paula Iglesias
Journalist, director and editor. In their production company Al Borde films, they are committed to the co-direction of documentaries with social projects such as “Solo son peces” (17′, 2019), a story about a fish farm in the middle of the Sahara desert that was nominated for the Goya Awards and recognised with the Zinebi Spanish Film Grand Award. With “Lanbroa” (17′, 2021) and “Hondarrak” (15′, 2022) they enter into non-fiction while in “Norte Salvaje” (90, 2021) they intertwine social story with visual poetry and with www.fabricandomujeres. org explore the interactive documentary. Crisis of care, migration or refugees are some of the themes with which they have won selections at national and international festivals such as HotDocs, FipaDoc, Seminci or MiradasDoc.
Other films by Paula Iglesias
