Pakistan Submits Historically-Animated Function ‘The Glassworker’ For Finest Worldwide Function Oscar Race

Pakistan is the second nation this yr to submit an animated characteristic because the nation’s official entry for the worldwide characteristic movie class of the 97th Academy Awards, following Latvia which submitted Move.

Pakistan’s submission is Usman Riaz’s The Glassworker, the primary traditionally-animated 2nd characteristic made in Pakistan. The 98-minute Ghibli-inspired movie world premiered in competitors at Annecy final June and has been enjoying the pageant circuit together with Hiroshima and the upcoming Sitges. It was additionally launched theatrically in Pakistan in July.

The Romeo and Juliet-esque story entails a younger glassworker who falls in love with an aspiring violinist, set in opposition to a backdrop of impending warfare and ideologically-opposed fathers.