Gulzar Nayani is an impact-driven filmmaker and photographer who uses creative storytelling to challenge cultural, social and political beliefs. Her work primarily documents social movements, including feminist struggles, housing justice, land rights and the rights of lower riparian communities in the Indus Delta region. An alumna of Goethe Film Talents II and Feminist Institute 2.0, her documentary Against the Rubble won Best Documentary at the Chittagong International All Women Film Festival 2025. In the same year, the film premiered at the 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg and was showcased at the Imagining Future Conference hosted by Habib University. Previously, her short documentary Freedom won the Generation Equality Film Festival (2021), organised by the United Nations. Her debut independent documentary, No More Backseaters, premiered at Capri Cinema as part of the Goethe-Institut Pakistan’s Sunday Matinee series. She is currently freelancing and developing a personal photo story initiated under the Pakistan Photo Festival mentorship program. Through this project, she reflects on repressed memories and explores her experience as a childhood cancer survivor, examining its socio-economic and gendered impacts.
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