Synopsis:
A young boy addicted to iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences, spends his days swiping on the lives of strangers as he attempts to get a top spot on the Ajar Board.
- Director:
- Arafat Mazhar
- Year:
- 2020
- Country:
- Pakistan
- Running time:
- 14 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation, Mixed media
- Production type:
- Professional
- Animators:
- Haseeb Rehman, Sanabil Hasan, Salman Karim, Arafat Mazhar, Umer Ahmed
- Script writers:
- Arafat Mazhar, Momin Masood, Rasti Farooq, Fatima Anwar
- Music composers:
- Arafat Mazhar, Shorbanoor
- Sound designers:
- Biiro, Umer Ahmed
- Editor:
- Haseeb Rehman
- Production:
- Puffball Studios
- Genres:
- Drama, Experimental, Tragicomedy
- Tags:
- Feminism, Body Image, Surreal, Political, Activism, Identity, Sexuality, Death, Technology and society, Humor, Transformation, Dreams, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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