Nameera Ahmed

My Documentary Showreel

2011-12-28T11:56:00.004+05:00

This showreel presents selected excerpts and trailers from a few of my documentary films: "Give Me Your Love" a film about the music of the whirling dervishes in Istanbul, "The Living Amongst the Dead" a film about the flood survivors of Thatta, Sindh who took refuge in a historical graveyard, "A Step Ahead in Publishing", a promotional documentary about the Oxford University Press Pakistan, "When the Rains Came" an investigative documentary exploring the man-made aspects of the 2010 Floods in Pakistan.

Rescuing Raheema

2011-12-28T10:14:00.001+05:00

My third film on the theme of the Pakistan floods, "Rescuing Raheema" (2011) was completed for Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and OXFAM. This short film covers the rescue operations conducted by boat by the Fisherfolk Forum in Sindh, in which they saved 58,000 human lives, and a baby girl, Raheema, who was born after her pregnant mother was saved in these operations.

Nominated at Environment Film Festival, India, December 2011

2011-09-15T17:41:00.003+05:00

The documentary "When the Rains Came" (2011) directed by Nameera and produced by Newsline Films for PANOS South Asia, has been nominated for competition in the 6th CMS Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, New Delhi, India, to take place from December 6-10, 2011.

http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2011/12/newsline-film-on-the-2010-floods-to-screen-in-new-delhi/

"With more than 300 films from 27 countries and 21 Indian states competing to find a place, it was quite a daunting task for the jury to nominate the best films in each category. The jury has finally nominated 68 films for the 2011 festival. This includes 51 Indian films and 17 International films."

Nominees: http://www.cmsvatavaran.org/cmsvata/Nominations_INTERNATIONAL.pdf

My second documentary work on the floods, "When the Rains Came" (2011) explores the man-made aspects of the flood disaster of 2010 in Pakistan. As the the monsoon season of 2010 wreaked unprecedented havoc across Pakistan, a country besieged by multiple crises began to grapple with this unexpected crisis of epic proportions, and questions began to surface at many levels. This film explores how much of the damage was natural and how much of it was man-made.

Screening at Goethe-Institut Washington

2011-08-13T14:40:00.031+05:00

September 12 2011:The film "The Living Amongst the Dead" (2010) has been invited for a screening at the Goethe-Institut Washington in an evening of film screenings from Pakistan on September 12, 2011.

This film, produced by the Goethe-Institut Pakistan, about the Pakistan Flood refugees of 2010 Pakistan, who stayed at the historical Makli Tombs (14th-17th Century), one of the largest necropoles in the world, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This centuries-old cultural heritage site became a backdrop for the refugees' survival, and seemed like a threshold between life and death.

Program: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/acv/flm/2011/en7987833v.htm

Screening at Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival:

Doha, Qatar, April 2011

Screening at Goethe-Institut Pakistan:

Karachi, Pakistan, December 2010.

Reviews in Dawn: http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/02/film-review-from-land-far-away.html
http://www.dawn.com/2010/12/15/documentary-showing-plight-of-idps-premiered.html

"Give Me Your Love" (2007)

2007-11-22T20:20:00.018+05:00

"Give Me Your Love" is a documentary about the story of Jalaluddin Rumi's reed flute and the music of his Whirling Dervishes. Rumi had talked of the making and playing of the ney (reed flute) as a metaphor, for the training and subsequent transformation, of the human spirit. The metaphor still holds power for the Sufis, whose seemingly timeless world within a contemporary context is captured by the film. The viewer gets a taste of their world, of their philosophies and beliefs, the journey of love through audition and the aspiring to the sublime through the mundane.

"Give Me Your Love" has had international screenings in Palermo, Italy; Tehran, Iran; Mumbai, Jaipur and Indore in India; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Istanbul, Turkey; Baku, Azerbaijan; the Netherlands and Karachi, Pakistan.

It is currently screening at an online film festival.

Watch full film here: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2480/Give-Me-Your-Love