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Catch this animated featurette based on Begum Rokeya’s 'Sultana’s Dream'

The film Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui will be screened at WOW Festival Pakistan

Published 17.05.22, 05:49 AM

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Sultana’s Dream, an animated adaptation of Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain’s feminist utopian story, will be screened as part of the WOW Festival Pakistan. Directed and written by Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui, the film was produced in collaboration with the British Council in Pakistan in 2021. The 10-minute short was animated by Tooba Kazim.

The film depicts a fictional place named Ladyland in which women run everything and men are confined in the mardan khana. Begum Rokeya wrote Sultana's Dream when she was 25 and the story was hailed as one of the most audacious utopian sci-fiction tales. It was originally published in the English periodical The Indian Ladies Magazine in 1905. The new featurette is available to stream at WOW Festival Pakistan’s YouTube channel.

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Catch this animated featurette based on Begum Rokeya’s 'Sultana’s Dream'

The film Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui will be screened at WOW Festival Pakistan