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Swipe, a Pakistani animated short film, has been selected for the world s oldest and most prestigious animation festival, the Annecy International Festival. It has also been selected for the AnimaFest Zagreb 2021, the second oldest animation festival in the world.
The Annecy International Festival will be held from July 14 to 19 while the AnimaFest Zagreb is scheduled from June 7 to 12.
The film has been made by Puffball, a Lahore-based animation and music studio.
Swipe will be the first Pakistani film to be showcased at both festivals. The film tells the story of Jugnu, a young boy who is addicted to swiping on iFatwa, an app that crowdsources religious death sentences.
With films like Swipe, Shehr e Tabassum, Pakistan s Puffball Studio depicts dystopias that feel all too real An app that mirrors mob justice. A dystopia where smiling is the only expression allowed. Pakistan s Puffball Studio and its founder Arafat Mazhar skewer the mechanisms of intolerance and hate through their films. Manik Sharma December 15, 2020 10:58:16 IST Still from Puffball Studio s Swipe
In the animated short film
Shehr e Tabassum, the ‘Supreme Leader’ of a dystopian Pakistan in 2071 passes a law declaring all expressions other than smiling a crime. It’s the state’s way of manufacturing both consent and a flimsy yet persuasive image of a happy civilisation. People who refuse are deemed as traitors. The drugged, exclusionary vision of the future that the short film offers is eerily echoed by the present of many countries around the world