Nida Mehboob
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Biography
Nida Mehboob is a photographer & filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan. She graduated as a pharmacist but left the field and started photography. Since then she has been doing documentary projects including few short films. She has received her diploma in photography from Pathshala Southasian Media Institute in 2019. She is currently finishing her master studies in documentary fillmmaking at Aalto University, Helsinki.
Known For
In Pakistan, the public space is dominated by men. The confidence with which they walk the streets or weight train quickly disappears once they are confronted with female sexuality. Off-screen, several anonymous women talk about their sexuality. The images of the conventional partiarchal society are in sharp contrast to the liberating explicitness of the accounts of clit stimulation, sex with multiple partners, pissing, abortions, and rape.
How I Like It
A daughter writes a letter for her father, who she lost after he was sentenced on charges of blasphemy.
A Night That Took Everything
A family from a persecuted minority returns to Pakistan eight years after leaving. They discuss the discrimination they face over a familial get-together.