Sabiha Sumar

A filmmaker and producer, best known for her independent documentary films Her first feature film, ‘Khamosh Pani’, won 17 international awards, including the Golden Leopard award for best film at the Locarno Film Festival in 2003. She is known for exploring themes of gender, religion, patriarchy, and fundamentalism in Pakistan. She, along with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Samar Minallah, are the only three Pakistani women independent documentary filmmakers to have screened their work outside of Pakistan.