Duration: 45 min | work in progress
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

The documentary series focuses on personal journeys of old people of Rawalpindi , whose lives span the period of dramatic transitions of Pakistan’s partition and political shifts ever since they moved from India to Pakistan.

Duration: 20 min | work in progress
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

This documentary documents the history of classic traditional games from Pakistan, and the way their absence in urban communities have changed the lives of the people who used to play them. As these games have almost disappeared, the oral histories, essays, poems, and photographs brought together in this documentary provides a valuable portrait of this historic regional institution.

Duration: 20 min | 2010 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi / Keychain Films

Synopsis:

The documentary immerses itself in the lives of old women who were painted in their prime more than 40 years back by the artist, Hal Bevan Petman. Through their interviews, the documentary acts as an exploration of the artist behind the paintings. The film also documents these elegant and charming old ladies as they look back at their paintings and talk about the times they were painted.

Duration: 32 min | 2009 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi / Silver Image Productions

Synopsis:

Morris Mata is a story of the little car, which helped shape Pakistan’s social history and consumer culture, and of those people who have had a lifelong association with such vehicles in Pakistan.

Duration: 4 min | 2007 | France
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

The short film examines how the same phrase changes its meaning when it is often repeated by different people in their own personal ways.

Duration: 7 min | 2005
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

Congregation of the Distressed is an animated short film which is based on the lives and times of modern day Pakistani congregation and its interpretation through an animated medium.

Duration: 25 min | 2004 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Serendip Productions

Synopsis:

The film documents the stories of children and their older generations who have been working together in the coal mines of Chakwaal for the past many decades.

Duration: 6 min | 2003 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

This short film is about a little scavenger’s ride as he finishes off his day and reaches back home with a few rupees in his pocket.

Duration: 5 min | 2003 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: Dedachi

Synopsis:

What is so common between love and death? This short film answers through the story of a rose and its few petals which are as fresh on the grave as they were when they were originally presented to the lover.

Duration: 5 min | 2003 | Pakistan
Director: Taqi Shaheen Producer: DEDACHI & KEYCHAIN FILMS

Synopsis:

The documentary immerses itself in the lives of old Pakistani women who were painted in their prime more than forty years ago by the artist, Hal Bevan Petman(1894-1980).Through their interviews, documentary acts as an open exploration of the artist behind the paintings and what was it like to be painted during those times in Pakistan.