Indus Blues

Indus Blues (2018)

Pakistani folk artists talk about their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the world what they are about to lose.

Date of release
2018-08-15
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Director
Jawad Sharif

Casting

Interesting facts

Indus Blues is a 2018 Pakistani documentary film produced and directed by filmmaker Jawad Sharif. The film is about the dying folk and classical musical instruments of Pakistan and the struggle of musicians and craftsmen to keep their art alive. The film was premiered in August 2018 at Regina International Film Festival in Canada and nominated for the Best International Documentary Film Award. The official trailer was released in October 2018 in Pakistan.

Production

The film took four years to complete with only the post-production taking up to two years and was shot across Pakistan from Gilgit-Baltistan to Sindh and the Makran Coast. Jawad Sharif also has stated that "Independent cinema will send the message that our TV Dramas could not."

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended