Panaji (PTI): Short films from Pakistan which are being screened at the ongoing South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) here make a statement against fundamentalism and highlight the emerging women's movement in the Islamic world.

'Khuda Kay Liye', which was released in India in April this year and drew rave reviews at its premiere in IFFI Goa last year will be the closing film of SAFF.

The film debates on the issues troubling the liberal young muslims in face of growing fundamentalism within and being the potential suspects of terrorism in the western world because of their muslim names.

'Khamosh Pani', which was screened in some festivals in India in 2003 is set in the late 1970s in a village in Pakistan's Punjab province. The backdrop of the film is about how the country has come under the influence of radicals. The film takes an interesting turn when Sikh pilgrims from India come to Pakistan for visit to a holy shrine.

One of the pilgrim looks for his sister who was abducted during the partition riots in 1947 awakening heart rending memories for Ayesha, ably played by Kiron Kher.

Director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy in the short film 'Journey through Afghanistan' investigates whether life has changed for women after the end of Taliban rule. The director concludes that liberation of Afghan women is mostly theoretical. It was naive to think that the country could be transformed quickly, when the oppression of women was consequences of centuries of tribal and cultural pratice and not sole invention of the Taliban. The director wonders where the millions of aid money has gone.