The 14-minute animated short was released in November 2020. Swipe tells the story of a boy who is addicted to an app that crowdsources death sentences. The film examines extremism resulting from excessive accessibility to technology. According to the film’s official synopsis, “Swipe is a hand-painted animated short film about Pakistan made by a team of 20 Pakistani animators, musicians, storytellers, and actors over the course of one year.”
Read: Arafat Mazhar’s Swipe makes it to international animation festivals
The director has listed the number of nods the short has scored so far. “How Swipe has done so far. 4 Oscar/BAFTA Qualifying festivals. We didn’t apply a lot of film festivals which denies us the right to make film freely accessible (you can’t screen at Venice if you release your film for free). Proud that we made it free AND received top laurels,” he tweeted.
You can watch it here:how @swipefilm has done so far. 4 Oscar/BAFTA Qualifying festivals. We didn’t apply a lot of film festivals which denies us the right to make film freely accessible (you can’t screen at venice if you release your film for free). proud that we made it free AND received top laurels pic.twitter.com/tzeGwWjkSs
— ArafatMazhar (@ArafatMazhar) September 7, 2021
