Honorable Mention in the category « Street Social / Docu Issues »
“Aftermath of the Cloud Outburst Flood, Pir babam Buner, Pakistan” bears witness to the devastating force of nature and the fragile resilience of humanity. In just fifty minutes of relentless rain, 237 lives were lost in one village — entire families swept away. One family lost 41 loved ones during a wedding ceremony; another, 27 members in a house. Children now dig through mud instead of playing, their innocence buried under trauma. Women live in silent fear, and whenever clouds gather, they no longer promise rain — they bring the shadow of death. This series confronts the world with the haunting truth of survival, grief and resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.
1. A girl sitting on a bunkbed surrounded by dowry of her sister wedding, the widow mother spent decades gathering them that all gone in one go.
2. Father struggling with her little boys to put mud out of his shop that left behind nothing but mud, the level of water was up to 12 ft at some places.
3. A little girl hidding in her once home, when asked why you are here it may collapse anytime, she replied i am finding my toys my doll.
4. Azaan, an 8th class school boy sitting broken in his house, you can see the level of water behind the walls, he lost all his books bags everything.
5. An Old man sitting outside his shop tired and broken, he spent days putting out mud from his shop that you can see in front of his shop.
6. Syed, with swollen red eyes sitting in his shoes shop, only bread winner of his home left with few shoes behind, all business lost, he wept all night as he struggled for years to built his business.
7. A little girl standing on debris of her home, once her play land now under the stones, the old man sitting behind lost his loved family members in the flood.
Talking to the old men of the valley, they said we are of 90 years old we have never seen such disaster in our whole life.
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