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7th EDITION
FESTIVAL 2026
IN-PERSON
Gandhara Independent Film Festival 2026 - Edition 7 brings you 30 independent films from all over the world in-person, exclusively on 2nd - 4th October, 2026 at the National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), Karachi.
Presented by Cirque Films
GIFF is excited to welcome indie filmmakers, media, academicians, creative industry veterans & cinephiles for the best of networking, premium shorts films & insightful discussions.
In-Competition Pakistan Shorts & Docs
Permanent Guest by Sana Zahra Jafri
We Really Are Pakistan by Saba Karim Khan
Khazana by Basir Ahmed
The After: A Chef’s Wish by Umar Riaz
Raat Jaagay by Mahnoor Nawab
Attock by Awais Gohar
Blender by Syed Nabil Hasan Rizvi
How to Kill Your Hunger? by Mehroz Amin
The Send Off by Amina Imran
In-Competition Foreign Language Shorts
What We Leave Behind
by Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Alexandra Myotte
Paradise Heights
by Karl Kai, Robert Mentov
Legacy of the Sun and Moon
by Kiyun Gabriel Sung
Candy Bar
by Nash Edgerton
Nobody Barks
by Júlia Coldwell Serra
When The Tiger Roars
by Lam Can-Zhao
Brute
by Jérémy Comte
The Monster
by Diego de Gracia
The Veil
by Gabriel Motta
Buffalo
by Cristian Fidel
The Mould
Mohammad Reza Nourmandipour
Octopus
by George Dogaru
The Man Who Stumbled By His Words
by Mubarak Ali Al-Zawba
My Plastic Mother
by Amar Haikal
Petticoats
by Gaëlle Graton
Jazz Infernal
by Will Niava
Under The Whether
by Putri Sarah Amelia
Who Love The Sun
by Arshia Shakiba
Finir au Soleil
by Ephrem Koering