City of Smiles (2020)
February 29, 2020Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Rasti Farooq
Protagonist / Mother / Additional Voices (voice) / Writer / Producer

Shah Fahad
Imtiaz / Additional Voices (voice)

Sana Jafri
Female Announcer (voice)

Huzaifa Akbar
Muskaan Bot (voice)

Shumyle Haider
Additional Voices (voice) / Graphic Designer / Art Department Assistant

Haseeb Rehman
Additional Voices (voice) / Editor / Lead Animator

Omair Rana
Old Man (voice)

Fatima Anwar
Writer

Shahrukh Aslam
Writer / Sound Mix Technician

Muhammad Rafay
Writer

Ayesha Iftikhar
Writer

Arafat Mazhar
Writer / Producer / Music / Director

Mustafa Kamal
Digital Compositor

Hassaan Mahmood
Digital Compositor

Waleed Zafar
Digital Compositor

Zahra Aamer
Animation

Sanabil Hasan
Animation

Salman Karim
Animation

Aman Asif Lone
Animation Production Assistant

Haaris Mansoor
Animation

Syed Falak
Location Manager

Abeer Sheikh
Sound Mix Technician

Iqra Fazli
Art Department Assistant

Lalain Iqbal
Art Department Assistant

Itrat Jabeen
Art Department Assistant

Moosa Saeed
Art Department Assistant

Hira Shukhaib
Art Department Assistant

Tehreem Zafar
Art Department Assistant

Isma Gul Hasan
Creative Director
Media.


Details.
Release DateFebruary 29, 2020
Original NameShehr e Tabassum
StatusReleased
Running Time9m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Shehr e Tabassum (Urdu: شہر تبسم), officially translated as City of Smiles, is a 2020 Pakistani Urdu-language animated short film directed by Arafat Mazhar and produced by Puffball Studios. It features an animated depiction of Pakistan set in a dystopian future of 2071, where crime and violent disagreements have been minimized by using technology to force everyone to constantly smile and not show negative emotions under threat of death.
The first trailer for Shehr e Tabassum was released in February 2019, and the final version was uploaded to YouTube on February 29, 2020. The film's creators have noted that other works—including science fiction films like Blade Runner and Akira, and such novels as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four—were the primary inspirations for the setting in the film.
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