Shadows in Sunlight to premiere at Holly Shorts

August 2025

In the backstreets of the city of Peshawar in North East Pakistan, a team of armed security guards gather in the morning light. Their mission is to protect Ishrat Rahim and her female colleagues - health workers on a mission to vaccinate the city’s children against Polio. Ishrat is one of almost 400,000 women working across Pakistan and if she and her team can succeed, it could finally rid the world of this dreaded disease.


We are very proud that SHADOWS IN SUNLIGHT has its world premiere tonight at Holly Shorts Film Festival from 5:00-7:00pm at the TCL Chinese Theatre in LA.


The film is directed by the brilliant Ruhi Hamidand was made in collaboration withThe Nobel Prize, Rideback and Nobel Prize Outreach


Director Ruhi Hamid

Producers Harri Grace & Paul King

Executive Producers Simon Doyle, Claire Paetkau Eriksson, Adam Mitchenall, Orlando von Einsiedel, Dan Lin & Michael LoFaso

Line Producer Irina Guimarães

Editor Michael Nollet

Director of Photography Chris Omand

Music by Nainita Desai