DOCUMENTARIES
Stories the statistics miss
Some things a report can't capture. Across twenty years, PCE has documented the realities behind Pakistan's education crisis and the people working to change it. Where the numbers show scale, these documentaries/films show faces and stories.
The collection brings together a visual record of where our movement has been from field documentaries to youth-led films, animations and much more.
Documentaries
Learning Against All Odds: Skills for a Changing Pakistan
Who gets left behind, and what it takes to change that. Across four themes: the divide in education, the struggle for inclusion, skills for the future, and the future we owe our children, education leaders, mental-health advocates, and disability-rights champions ask the hard questions. Featuring Zehra Arshad (SAQE), Gulmina Bilal (NAVTTC), Abdul Rehman Lodhi (EOTO Foundation), Abia Akram (National Forum for Women with Disabilities), Eman Niazi, Naveeda Siddique (SPARC), and Hamna Hafeez (NOWPDP).
QAFAS
A haunting visual poem on the weight of words. A girl's lament to a world that fears her ambition, and her dream of rewriting her destiny through education. Youth-led from direction to cinematography, produced by Urwa Naeem with support from the Malala Fund. This short film had a special screening at the Women International Film Festival 2026, Islamabad.
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Education Anthem: Har Bacha Jab Parhay Ga To Mulk Agay Barhey Ga
PCE's education anthem "when every child is educated, the country will move forward
20 Years of PCE
The coalition's two-decade journey from its founding in 2005 to a network reaching from remote villages to global forums. Twenty years of resolve in one documentary.
Dunya Aur Larki
An animation on the barriers to girls' education following girls who want to go to school but are denied the right.
Article 25-A: Right to Education
From PCE's advocacy campaign with ILM Ideas' Voice & Accountability Fund — engaging legislators and education departments across all four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory to make the constitutional guarantee of free, compulsory education real.
Primary Education Issues | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest Copy Copy Copy Copy
Sania Nasir, IBA Sukkur (5th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
Sowing Weeds to Reap Wheat | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest
Awais Siddiqui, Bahria University (4th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
Half Education | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest
Yasir Ali, Riphah University (3rd). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
