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Moum k Ansoo (Tears of Wax)

Salma came home from work as usual at dawn while her daughter was sleeping. She started removing her make-up while the daughter gets up and she told to her sleep again. After that, she cleans the house gets a bath, and starts preparing food for her daughter. Then she drops her daughter to her school while on her way a local shop-man taunts her. After dropping her daughter to school she came home and goes to sleep. In school, Fatima tells her friend to bring dolls tomorrow so that we can marry them and when her friend shows her the doll she brought, Fatima locked her eyes on the necklace of the doll and wishes to have one. After school, Fatima and her mother Salma go to stationary to buy some stuff for tomorrow’s test. There Fatima told her mother about the necklace at which she promised her to buy one. The next day Fatima and her friend marry their dolls and Fatima tells her that she will have her own necklace soon. When Fatima came back home, she had a fever due to which Salma didn’t go to work and take care of her but a man came to the house and abuse Salma for not coming to work. She told him that after her daughter’s fever will go she will come. After that, she started playing with the wax of the candle which was burning due to load shedding, and make some round shapes like pearls with it. The next day she put the wax particles in a thread to make a necklace and after making it she put it beside her daughter’s pillow. A man came from whom Salma had taken the money and forcefully enters the house. It was almost midnight, when Fatima’s eyes opens because of the noise of the bed and she tries to overcome those voices.

  • Samran Ali
    Director
  • Samran Ali
    Writer
  • Liaquat Ali
    Producer
  • Hifza Tahir
    Key Cast
    "Salma"
  • Habiba Sufyan
    Key Cast
    "Fatima"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Moum k Ansoo
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 30, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    962 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Pakistan
  • Country of Filming:
    Pakistan
  • Language:
    Urdu
  • Shooting Format:
    digital, 35mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University of Lahore
Director Biography - Samran Ali

Samran Ali, is a young filmmaker from Pakistan. I left the medical school entry test and got admission to film school. I was always profound about cinema, and the magic it has. The meaning of my name is storyteller which I haven't discovered yet that I am good at verbal storytelling or visual. But I like to make films. Living in Pakistan is hard for filmmakers because our society doesn't give us permission to film. The people here consider it an odd profession. But I am trying my best to shoot films and fulfill my dream of making films.

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Director Statement

All human beings are social animals. We live in a society where all human beings are connected to each other in some way. All their actions somehow affect each other's lives. Every human despite gender, race or economic status is equal and has equal rights to experience. Everyone lives in different factions which forms a society. People have set different standards for themselves by which they measure each other's status and role in society. However, the worry is that people have started judging others by themselves. Just as there are two sides to every coin, there can be different sides to every scene. There must be some reason behind everything happening but people don't understand it. They began to judge other people on the basis of their actions without understanding the reason behind them. And the cruel aspect is that they even start giving the same tag to their subsequent generations. They don’t even understand their compulsion and sometimes they themselves became the reason behind that.
On the whole, of course, people in society call it bad, but the fact is that these individuals are still the reason for its existence. When we talk about prostitutes, of course, no one in society gives them respect, they are considered bad because of their profession. Even the effects of their profession are felt not only in their own lives but also in the lives of generations to come. Without knowing what their journey behind choosing this profession is, what are their compulsions, how did they become attached to it? Society labeled their character and coming generations are labeled as immoral. According to various researches, most women are forced to join this profession due to their financial situation and behind some is the hand of beastly human beings in society. Once a woman is involved in this field, that experience becomes a nightmare and she pursues it for the rest of her life. Not only that woman but her descendants also pay for this thing. Even if they want to leave all this and move on in life, they are not helped. Their children, especially their daughters, are most affected by it. No prostitute would ever want her daughter to be a prostitute like her. However, it is said that the daughter of a prostitute will also become a prostitute because they are not allowed to get rid of this nightmare. Seeing things like this from a very young age has a profound effect on their mentality from which it is almost impossible to get rid of for the rest of their lives. And this trauma haunts them all their lives like a nightmare. When it comes to society, even their friends do not accept them and they are socially isolated. But even if their mothers wanted to, they could not save them from this painful tragedy. They also live their lives under duress and this cycle continues from generation to generation.