Beneath the glossy-but-tired commercial surface of Pakistan's film industry, something promising is happening.

Hip-hop star Talha Anjum is cresting on a high, on course to ending the year with a bang. Having been crowned Spotify's most streamed Pakistani artist last week, the rapper's debut film Kattar Karachi ...

A Pakistani film will hit Chinese cinemas for the first time in more than 40 years this November, as Beijing seeks to bolster relations with Pakistan at a time when its connections to India are at a ...

On weekday afternoons in Karachi, cinema halls once filled with rickshaw drivers, labourers, students skipping lectures, and ...

Pakistani cinema is poised to embrace the horror genre again with “Deemak” (meaning “Termite”), a psychological supernatural thriller. The film represents a significant push to elevate local cinema ...

In 2014 and 2015, the Pakistani film festival Love, War & Other Longings signaled that a “new cinema,” centered on themes of love, family, friendship, nationhood, and justice, had been maturing among ...

Pakistan had 1,500 movie houses just 50 years ago. Seventy remain, a near complete extinction spurred by the repressive Islamic government and years of sloppy work. But change comes to the country ...

A Pakistani film that challenges regional cultural stereotypes of women and trans-people is to get a local theatrical release following its world premiere at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

KARACHI: “We began screaming at the top of our voices when Melissa McCarthy started to say 'Saving…',” said Mahjabeen Obaid, recalling the moment when her sister, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's film was ...

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Satish Anand, prominent Pakistani filmmaker and distributor, has been kidnapped in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi, a top police official said Tuesday. By Reuters, The ...