Exclusive: Flying Hands, a documentary film about one family’s fight to provide education and establish equal rights for deaf children in the remote Pakistan-administered Baltisan region, has been nabbed by several broadcasters.
The World channel has snagged it for the U.S. Other buyers include Npo in the Netherlands, Dw in Germany and TV3 Catalunya.
Flying Hands tells the story Aniqa Bano and her daughter, who is born deaf but later enters the hearing world after an operation. Bano and her husband open a school for deaf children.
From writer-director duo Marta Gómez and Paula Iglesias, the film has had a solid festival run after its world premiere at Hot Docs last year. It has garnered several accolades including Best Documentary Feature at the London Women Film Festival and Paris Women Cinefest.
Set in Baltistan, a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, the film open with Bano...
The World channel has snagged it for the U.S. Other buyers include Npo in the Netherlands, Dw in Germany and TV3 Catalunya.
Flying Hands tells the story Aniqa Bano and her daughter, who is born deaf but later enters the hearing world after an operation. Bano and her husband open a school for deaf children.
From writer-director duo Marta Gómez and Paula Iglesias, the film has had a solid festival run after its world premiere at Hot Docs last year. It has garnered several accolades including Best Documentary Feature at the London Women Film Festival and Paris Women Cinefest.
Set in Baltistan, a mountainous region in the Pakistani-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, the film open with Bano...
- 4/15/2025
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
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