//Pakistan, 30th March – 10th April

Aks International Minorities Festival will take place in three cities; Lahore (30th March – 2nd April), Islamabad (3rd April), Karachi (6th April – 10th April). In 2017, Aks festival will showcase 27 feature and short length fictions and documentaries on diverse topics to address the issues of minorities and marginalized communities. This year, the main topics are feminist movements, transgender rights movements and historical existence of gender diversity in South Asia, wars in the name of religion, gender fluidity in Asia, Black Lives Matter, and artivism (art combined with activism) through photography and performance art. Apart from the film screenings, the festival also offers several talks, performance art events, progressive dialogues, masterclasses with academics, artists, and filmmakers from Germany, USA, Denmark and Netherlands. A special feature this year will be an academy program to focus on gender diversity in Pakistani society hosted by Aks festival along with its collaborative partner, Olomopolo media. This will be a test program in 2017, which has been inspired and mentored by International Queer Migrant Festival, Amsterdam.

Program Catalogue 2017