| Screenings at the Pakistan Institute of
International Affairs |
| DAY PASS |
11.00 pm |
Monotone, Mon Automne? (Ageing, Not
Greying)
[Documentary] SWITZERLAND / 2004 / 55 MIN
/ FRENCH
Their names are, Rose,
Jacqueline and Nadine and their combined ages are 240, but
life goes on as if they were still twenty! |
| 12.00 pm |
Pretty Dyana
[Documentary]
SERBIA / 2004 / 45 MIN / SERBIAN
Innovation, freedom and hope, gypsy-style, in
a Belgrade backyard! |
| 1.00
pm |
SHORTS III
[Collected Shorts,
98 min]
Motion Report; Para Que Te
Pueda Olvidar (For Me To Forget You); 2B Or Not 2B; Sei Nicht
Blok (Don’t Be Woolish); Mr. Price; Sea Stories; Sleep; One
Long Night. |
| 3.00
pM |
Celebrating Saneeya
[Documentary] PAKISTAN / 2005 / 14 MIN / ENGLISH
A tribute to a trail-blazing woman.
Ik Dehara Talib Hussain Nal (One Day
With Talib Hussain)
[Documentary] PAKISTAN / 2005 /
12 MIN / PUNJABI
The dying trade of a
mobile barber.
Panta Rei (Everything Flows)
[Documentary] BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / 2005 / 20 MIN /
BOSNIAN
Sans dialogue, a lyrical
portrait of the loss of innocence.
Treacling Down
[Documentary]
SRI LANKA / 2005 / 14 MIN / ENGLISH
A sensitive examination of the
implications of culture-for-sale in the urbanized
super-store.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH
DIRECTORS MAHVISH BATOOL AND UPALI GAMLATH |
| 4.45 pm
|
Shaista
[Short] PAKISTAN /
2005 / 47 MIN / URDU
A woman’s
husband is lost in his literary world, leaving her feeling
lonely and isolated.
FOLLOWED BY Q & A
WITH DIRECTOR ABRAR-UL-HASAN
Aina Wohi Rehta Hai (The Mirror Remains
the Same)
[Short] PAKISTAN / 2004 / 50 MIN / URDU
The under-confident daughter of
a successful politician mother one day falls in love and finds
the courage to stand up for herself.
FOLLOWED BY Q & A WITH DIRECTOR
OWAIS KHAN AND PRODUCER ANEELA KHAN |
| PRIME
TIME 1 |
7:00 pm |
Death of Comedy
[Documentary, World Premiere] PAKISTAN / 2005 / 70 MIN /
URDU-ENGLISH
An insight into
the cultural history of comedy in Pakistan, and a tribute to
one of the greatest pop culture icons of the ‘60s and ‘70s –
Rangeela. Part of KaraFilm’s tribute to the multi-faceted
filmmaker.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH
DIRECTOR SHAAN TASEER |
| PRIME TIME 2 |
9.30 pm |
West Beyrouth
[Feature, 100 min] LEBANON / 1998 / 100 MIN /
ARABIC-FRENCH
Beirut ,
Lebanon , 1975. The city is split in two: Christian East
Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. As tension mounts, young Tarek
and his friends run amok, relishing the anarchy which war
brings. Spotlight on Fonds Sud Cinema. |
| Gala Screenings at the
Alliance Francaise |
| GALA
SCREENING 1 |
7:00
pm |
Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei (The
Edukators)
[Feature]
GERMANY-AUSTRIA / 2004 / 126 MIN / GERMAN
Mysterious perpetrators are non-violently
warning the local rich that their “days of plenty are
numbered!” Meanwhile, a love triangle threatens to tear
everything apart.Nominated for a Golden Palm at Cannes.
|
| GALA SCREENING 2 |
9.30
pm |
Depuis qu’Otar Es Parti (Since Otar
Left)
[Feature]
FRANCE-BELGIUM / 2003 / 103 MIN /
GEORGIAN-FRENCH-RUSSIAN
Otar
has died, but his letters continue arriving home. Winner of
the Grand Jury Prize of the Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2003.
|
|
Screenings at the Iqra University Auditorium
|
| IQRA
PASS |
12:00
pm |
Man Ba Khoda Harf Mizanam (I Speak To
God)
[Documentary, REPEAT] IRAN / 2004 / 30 MIN /
PERSIAN
Unadorned truths through the
prism of madness. |
| 12:45
pm |
City of Photos
[Documentary, REPEAT]
INDIA / 2005 / 60 MIN / BENGALI-ENGLISH
An unconventional look at the psyche of a
people. Not everyone enjoys being photographed; not every
backdrop is beautiful; not all photos are taken on happy
occasions. |
| 1:45
pm |
The Die Is Caste
[Documentary] INDIA / 2004 / 83 MIN / HINDI-ENGLISH
Three decades of left-wing
politics in Bihar.
FOLLOWED BY
Q&A WITH DIRECTOR RANJAN KAMATH |
| 3:30
pm |
SHORTS I
[Pakistani Shorts,
87 min, REPEAT]
The Goodbye Man;
Blind Faith; The Edge of Sanity; Hero; Kaash (If); Khowab
(Dream); Safar (Journey); Spin; 20 Minutes
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH DIRECTORS |
| 5:45
pm |
Ohhh…
[Short, REPEAT]
PAKISTAN / 2005 / 40 MIN / URDU
Every person has dreams and ambitions,
but not everyone lives to realise them. Some people however,
are able to triumph in spite of failure.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH DIRECTOR
SARMAD KHOOSAT |
| 6:45
pm |
Home
[Short, REPEAT] PAKISTAN
/ 2005 / 45 MIN / URDU-ENGLISH
Ali has everything going for him, yet he
is unhappy. When he discovers his wife is pregnant, something
inside him snaps, taking him on a long journey back home.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH ACTOR AND
DIRECTOR FAISAL REHMAN |
| 8:00
pm |
Gilaneh
[Feature] IRAN / 2005
/ 84 MIN / PERSIAN
At the
height of Iraqi missile attacks on Iranian cities in 1988,
peasant woman Gilaneh’s son, Esmaeil, sets out for the
battlefront, while her pregnant daughter is anxious for her
deserter husband's safety.
FOLLOWED
BY Q&A WITH ACTOR FATEMEH MOTAMED-ARYA
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