Sandstorm
Zara, a schoolgirl in Karachi, shares a sensual dance video with her virtual boyfriend, who then blackmails her.
- Pakistan, United Kingdom
- 2021, 20 min
- Director: Seemab Gul
- Director of photography: Alberto Balazs
- Editor: Raluca Petre, Seemab Gul
- Screenplay: Seemab Gul
- Music: Hollie Buhagiar, Baluji Shrivastav
- Sound: Faiz Zaidi
- Cast: Parizae Fatima (Zara), Hamza Mushtaq (Omar), Ayesha Shoaib Ahmed, Nabila Khan, Aun Ali Saleem, Masuma Halai Khwaja, Qasim Ali
- Producer: Abid Aziz Merchant
- Production: Sanat Initiative
Seemab Gul
Seemab Gul is an award-winning writer/director and producer from Pakistan. Her documentary Zahida (2018) was broadcast on Al Jazeera and won the Audience Award at Tasveer SAFF. Her short film Sandstorm (2021) premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival and was shown in competition at Sundance 2022. Seemab is an alumna of the Locarno OD Producers Lab, the Biennale College Cinema, and Berlinale Talents. She is a graduate of the London Film School.