
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2024
How to love a tree (prologue)
dir: - Hira Nabi
run time: 14 min
production year: 2024
documentary short
synopsis: In her live multichannel performance ‘How to Love a Tree’, Hira Nabi weaves together whispered narratives from sylvan landscapes, misty mountain sides, ghosts of extraction and British imperialism, inviting us into forest time. Part of an ongoing artistic project, launched in 2019, ‘How to Love a Tree’ documents the former colonial hill stations in the blue pine forests of Murree and the Galiyat region of Pakistan. Nabi sees these places as ecosystems that are crumbling, marked by a history of imperial rule. She focuses on making remnants of this painful past visible in what are now tourist destinations in the hills. Here, traces of exploitation mingle with expressions of capitalism, while the deterioration of the environment continues.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2020
El Retorno, Hira Nabi, 2016
A taxi driver agrees to drive a stranger around a town the man has never visited. Their short journey gives the man a new destination.
A decommissioned vessel berthed at Gadani and the shipbreakers coming from all over Pakistan to break it discover that they might have more in common than otherwise imagined, when they enter into a conversation.