{"id":58876,"date":"2025-07-07T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/riyadh-fashion-week-issues-final-call-for-designer-applications-ahead-of-3rd-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:07:00","slug":"riyadh-fashion-week-issues-final-call-for-designer-applications-ahead-of-3rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=58876","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Fashion Week issues final call for designer applications ahead of 3rd edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tISLAMABAD: Two Pakistani films, Nayab and Deemak, have won major accolades at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Film Festival in China, state-run news agency APP reported on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe festival showcased 27 films from SCO member states, including China, Russia, Pakistan, India, and Central Asian countries. Organized to foster regional cinematic exchange, the event featured screenings, industry forums, a film technology expo, and a gala concert, with awards presented in ten categories.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe SCO Film Festival first launched in 2018 and is a cultural initiative of the multilateral bloc to promote cooperation in cinema and the creative industries among member countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cPakistani film Nayab and Deemak received prestigious \u2018Jury Special Award\u2019 and \u2018Best Editing Award\u2019 respectively at the colorful concluding ceremony of SCO film festival held at Chongqing, China,\u201d Associated Press of Pakistan reported.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tDirector of Pakistani movie, Nayab, Umair Nasir Ali (center) giving acceptance speech at the SCO Film Festival for the Jury Special award in China, in a picture shared by the director himself on social media on July 7, 2025. (Umair Nasir Ali\/Instagram)\u00a0<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNayab, released in 2024, is a sports-drama centered on a young woman from Karachi, played by Yumna Zaidi, who aspires to become a professional cricketer despite intense family and societal opposition. The cast includes Fawad Khan, Javed Sheikh, and Adnan Siddiqui.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe film has previously won multiple awards, including Best Foreign Film and Best First-Time Filmmaker (Feature) at the World Film Festival in Cannes, and a Special Jury Diploma at the 30th Minsk International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThe cinema was packed, and what truly moved me was how deeply they engaged with the film,\u201d Nayab\u2019s director Umair Nasir Ali told APP after the film\u2019s screen at the SCO festival. \u201cThey picked up on the layers, the emotional arcs and asked thoughtful, relevant questions that showed how closely they had followed the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tDeemak is a psychological horror film directed by Rafay Akbar Rashdi and starring Soniya Hussyn, Faysal Quraishi, Samina Peerzada, and Bushra Ansari.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.pk\/sites\/default\/files\/pictures\/July\/2999496\/2025\/1a1.jpeg.jpg\" width=\"1200\"\/>&#13;<figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tScreengrab of a reel showing director of Pakistani movie, Deemak,\u00a0Rafay Akbar Rashdi (second left) receiving the best editing award\u00a0for his movie Deemak at the SCO Film Festival held in China in a video shared on social media on July 7, 2025. (RafayRashidi\/Instagram)<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSet in an aging home haunted by unexplained phenomena, the film explores family tensions and mental trauma. It became Pakistan\u2019s highest-grossing horror film when it released earlier this year, earning over Rs60 million [$211,173] in its opening week.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tPakistan\u2019s film industry has seen a steady resurgence in recent years, with a new generation of filmmakers experimenting with genres from sports dramas to horror and social realism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tJoyland (2022) became the first Pakistani feature to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section, and was later selected as Pakistan\u2019s official entry to the Oscars. The country has also received two Academy Award wins in the documentary short category by filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tMeanwhile, The Legend of Maula Jatt (2022) set new box office records, becoming Pakistan\u2019s highest-grossing film to date and finding global audiences with its big-budget, Punjabi-language action storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2607356\/lifestyle\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistani films, Nayab and Deemak, have won major accolades at the Shanghai Cooperation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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