Kabaddi

An homage to Pakistan's under-represented Kabaddi players and a coach's journey to keep the sport alive in the country.
Published November 25, 2019

Alexander Volberding and Ihtesham Ismail, the team who filmed 'Kabaddi', one of the finalists of Dawn.com Deutsche Welle's video story contest, #ItHappensOnlyinPakistan on the theme #OurDiversePakistan, have been selected to work with DW Documentary to produce a 12-15 minutes long documentary film and win a prize of Rs330,000. These documentary films will be released on DW Documentary's official YouTube channel later.

Kabaddi pays homage to Pakistan's under-represented Kabaddi players and recounts a coach's journey to keep the sport alive in the country.


It Happens Only In Pakistan is a nationwide video story contest organised by Dawn.com and Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster. This time, the theme for the contest was sharing stories under the hashtag #OurDiversePakistan, and invited filmmakers from all over Pakistan to submit short documentary-styled videos that captured stories of unsung, unique Pakistani heroes. Jury for the contest included noted Pakistani documentary filmmakers Jami and Babar Sheikh. The contest accepted entries from July 5 to August 25, 2019.