How women see themselves and the world when they break away from the male gaze. Stories on screen, the visual of women when they break away from the manic pixie dream girl and create for women.
Panelists: Fatimah Sattar, Nirmal Bano &
Tazeen Bari
Moderator: Haya Fatima Iqbal
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A set of interwoven audio stories, that share first person accounts of Floods. They talk of the visceral fear, the inescapable pain and the ongoing trauma that survivors cannot walk away from. No matter how much we use words like rebuild we cannot move past the debris of those broken lives."

Sarmad Khoosat & Lahore Biennale Foundation
‘In cinema, as in any other art, the truly indigenous style can be evolved only by a director working in his own country, in the full awareness of his past heritage and present environment.’ -Satyajit Ray. Mandva is an exploration of seven and a half decades of Pakistani cinema. An attempt to initiate archiving and reading of our very indigenous cinematic syntax. We have loved and owned it sometimes but also hated and abandoned it intermittently. It’s our heritage and let’s reclaim it, to inspect, dissect and interpret."

Lahore Digital Festival (LDF) has curated the works of five emerging women artists in line with the theme of the festival. These works evoke dialogue between viewers and turn their digital screens into gallery spaces. The works will be presented via a digital gallery space, which will be embedded into WOW Pakistan's website.
Additionally, to create a sync between the physical and the digital world, screens will be available for audiences at Beach Luxury

React my sister, my mother, my friend
React to break the silence that deafens!

ReACT is an interactive installation for women to enter a space to express themselves. Give color to their rage, and scream, laugh and freely release themselves from the bonds of silence that was imposed on them by themselves and the society. "

While we are talking of Ral Mil let us not forget those that society pretends don’t exist. Those in jail, whom the justice system has failed in so many ways. This will have installation as well as a game component to give people an idea of how the system works against them and what the prison and gallows can do to shatter all sense of community.

Photovoice exhibit showcasing the lives and work of midwives (including response during floods in 2022) in South Asia, with a focus on Pakistan, highlighted in a photo gallery with narration of stories. The photographs will highlight the work of midwives and the lives of the families they work with.

Get up close and personal with the skies with Cosmic Perspectives bringing their most prized telescope to show everyone the beauty of the stars, the planets, and the moons up above us.

It is a life sized board game; a variation of snakes and ladders game, where red flags bring you down and green flags lift you up. A fun way to get young adults thinking about behaviors and for young kids to just enjoy the game.