{"id":922210,"date":"2026-10-06T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922210\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:06:10","slug":"pakistan-picks-hanging-by-a-wire-for-oscars-international-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922210\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Picks \u2018Hanging by a Wire\u2019 for Oscars International Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMohammed Ali Naqvi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/hanging-by-a-wire-review-documentary-1236480579\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hanging by a Wire<\/a> has been chosen as Pakistan\u2019s entry for best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international<\/a> feature film at the 2027 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars_1\" data-tag=\"oscars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe documentary, the first selected by Pakistan to contend at the Oscars, revisits a dramatic August 2023 cable car emergency in Battagram in northern Pakistan. The film, which bowed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/sundance\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sundance_1\" data-tag=\"sundance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sundance<\/a> and is written and produced by Naqvi and Bilal Sami, captures in jaw-dropping detail how six schoolboys on their way to school were left suspended roughly 900 feet above a ravine after a cable snapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThat set off a rescue effort followed on live TV across Pakistan and around the world. Hanging by a Wire features eyewitness footage, survivor testimony and cinematic reconstructions that include rescue workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhat works best in the film, as is often the case with movies such as this, is the stitching together of actual footage from the ordeal, both the fuzzy faraway phone videos and the stomach-plunging drone shots capturing these young men in staggering close-up as they sit precariously in the overturned gondola, waiting desperately for rescue,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter film reviewer Richard Lawson writes in <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/hanging-by-a-wire-review-documentary-1236480579\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/hanging-by-a-wire-review-documentary-1236480579\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe stunning landscape surrounding them \u2014 verdant foothills in the foreground, snow-capped Himalayan massifs in the distance \u2014 heightens the surreality and loneliness of their experience, tiny figures suspended precariously amid the unforgiving majesty of the world,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe film is produced by EverWonder Studio, Universal Pictures Content Group, Mindhouse Productions and 64th Street Media. Dogwoof is handling a theatrical release in the U.K., Abramorama will release the film in the U.S. A Paramount+ streaming release is set for Oct. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammed Ali Naqvi\u2019s Hanging by a Wire has been chosen as Pakistan\u2019s entry for best international feature film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3042,49,48,75,77,337,18744,245656,79523],"class_list":["post-922210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-awards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-oscars-2027","tag-sundance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}