The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has selected the Pakistani short film Permanent Guest (Mustaqil Mehmaan) for ...

British-Pakistani filmmaker Seemab Gul discusses her debut feature inspired by Pakistan's 'ghost schools' crisis and corruption in rural education.

The Pakistani film and drama industry has seen a massive change in the twenty-first century, despite being overshadowed by Bollywood, lousy scriptwriting, censorship, a lack of technology, and screen ...

Award-winning movie “Joyland” opens in cinemas in parts of Pakistan Friday, after authorities in the South Asian nation overturned a ban imposed following complaints the homegrown film was unsuitable ...

A Pakistani film will hit Chinese cinemas for the first time in more than 40 years this November, as Beijing seeks to bolster relations with Pakistan at a time when its connections to India are at a ...

The Pakistani movie Joyland has made headlines around the world for its ground-breaking depiction of a love story between a married cisgender man and a transgender woman in the city of Lahore.

On November 17, the government of Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province, banned “Joyland,” the story of a young man in Pakistan who falls in love with a transgender woman. The film, which has received ...

As both countries head into a war-like face-off, Pakistan says it has banned Indian films after India had already pulled films from release in addition to banning Pakistani talent from working in ...

NEW DELHI -- A Pakistani film about Muslims in a post 9/11 world is slated to open in India next month, a rare event considering political rivalry has limited cultural interaction between the two ...

NEW DELHI — Indian filmmakers are taking advantage of a thaw in relations between New Delhi and Islamabad to try to get a 40-year ban on Bollywood movies lifted in neighboring Pakistan. However, ...

Cinema-goers buy tickets to watch a film at a local cinema in Karachi, Pakistan, Feb. 1, 2020. Credit: AP Photo/Fareed Khan The Pakistani government succumbed to protests from the radical Islamist ...

ISLAMABAD – The creator of an animated film on blasphemy in Pakistan is hoping it will prompt discussion on tolerance at a time that rights advocates say hate speech on social media is increasingly ...