Filmmakers: Ali Mehdi & Sualeha Qureshi
Country: Pakistan
Language: Urdu | Persian | English
Year: 2025
Run Time: 20 mins
Pakistan’s Hazara Community Carves Hope Amidst Persecution
Carved in Chaos is a poignant exploration of resilience within Pakistan’s persecuted Hazara community, known for producing some of the country’s finest athletes despite enduring decades of violence and displacement. The film follows the intertwined journeys of three Hazara sports figures whose lives reveal the cost of survival and the pursuit of dignity. Through their stories, Carved in Chaos paints an intimate portrait of courage, sacrifice, and the unyielding spirit of a community determined to carve identity and hope from chaos.
Director:
Sualeha Qureshi is an independent documentary filmmaker and impact researcher based in Karachi. She makes films tracing how people, land and livelihoods shape one another. In 2024, she directed a short film for UNICEF in support of the Child Marriage Restraint Bill, which went on to become law and set the legal age of marriage at 18 in Pakistan. She worked as a legal researcher on the Oscar-winning documentary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. She is a former Research Fellow at UnionDocs in New York and an alumna of the INTERDOC masterclass in Serbia.
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