Pakistani animated film Swipe has become the first Pakistani animated film to make it to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Announcing the news on social media, the official Twitter account of Swipe said: “Celebrations! Swipe has made an official selection at Annecy Festival 2021.”
“Swipe is the first Pakistani animated film to be featured at the oldest and highest-profile animation festival in the world,” said the announcement further, adding: “It’s a dream come true for Puffball Studios which was launched just 2 years ago.”
According to the film’s official synopsis, “Swipe is a hand-painted animated short film about Pakistan made by a team of 20 Pakistani animators, musicians, storytellers, and actors over the course of one year.”
It was been “written, drawn, animated, composed [and] acted all under one roof, Puffball Studios.”
“Swipe is our attempt confronting a growing crisis resulting from a culmination of the nexus of technology, extremism and fascism. At the heart of this story is a confrontation with increasingly hostile, alienating, divisive circumstances and a plea for greater empathy, before it’s too late,” adds the official description further.
The short film has been directed and produced by Arafat Mazhar and co-produced by Rasti Farooq.
