Hanging by a Wire

High above the picturesque mountains of Battagram in northern Pakistan, a routine journey becomes a terrifying fight for survival when a cable car carrying eight people, including six schoolboys, suddenly fails – leaving them suspended 900 metres in the air. As two of the three cables snap and the last begins to give way, a race-against-time rescue mission unfolds under intense global media scrutiny. Drawing on footage recorded by onlookers, drone imagery and cinematic reconstructions, director Mohammed Ali Naqvi (The Accused: Damned or Devoted?) crafts an unforgettable and visually arresting documentary that plays like an adrenaline-fueled thriller, while revealing profound truths about class, inequality and resilience.