Short Film · 2023 · Red Sea International Film Festival

Solatia

A 15-minute Pakistani-American short blending drama, suspense, and mystery, directed by Hira Yousafzai.

Zamda (Amtul Baweja), displaced and guarded, lives in a makeshift shelter among others who have lost everything. On one wall, photographs of the missing. She adds her husband's picture, and finds that love, memory, and reckoning follow her into exile, as she comes face to face with the person responsible for it.

DirectorHira Yousafzai

Executive ProducerHuss

ProducersHirra Farooqi & Zayan Agha

WritersJonathan Howard Sonnenberg & Hira Yousafzai

CastHuss, Sadiq Hazara, Samiya Mumtaz, Amtul Baweja

Details2023 · Urdu & English · 15 min

PremiereRed Sea International Film Festival, Jeddah

GenreDrama · Suspense · Mystery

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