Karachi: Embassy of Switzerland and Fatima Jinnah Women’s University on International Women’s Day invited audience to screening of award-winning documentary Barefoot with Godfather of Soccer by filmmaker Khalid Hasan Khan.

Event was held in auditorium of University, Dr. Sarwat Rasool, Dean of Fatima Jinnah Women’s University appreciated efforts of Swiss Embassy, ??thanked students of University were aware of participation in International Women’s Day. It will help to understand message. Ambassador George Steiner iexpressed his views, saying, “We had privilege of watching wonderful and very inspiring film this morning about inclusion of women. We understand. “Inclusion of women in our society is very important and surely our society needs to value it more.” During question and answer session, Dakomundi filmmaker Khalid Hasan Khan talked about central idea of the interfaith and multicultural football film. Quoting psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, he said, “No tree can go to heaven until its roots reach hell.”

Among these footballers are youths from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Lyari, who play under conditions of unbearable hardship, almost all of them suffer from discrimination at some point or other, filmmaker added.

We will have to go through furnace of struggle. “When sports organisations fail to nurture talent, godfathers step in to save dreams of young people,” he explained.

He quoted famous line, “Whoever you are, I’ve always dependent on kindness of strangers.” It is ‘kindness of strangers,’ ‘humanity,’ that helps young boys and girls survive and thrive in their field of dreams.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, March, 16 2024

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