Garry Keane and Stephen Gerard Kelly’s documentary In The Shadow Of Beirut, which is Ireland’s Oscar category this year, is headed to the Red Sea International Film Festival, running November 30 to December 9 in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
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Naman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for Pakistani-U.S. director Iram Parveen Bilal‘s Pakistan-set “Wakhri: One of a Kind,” which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Red Sea Film Festival. Bilal was named one of the directors to watch by the Alliance of Women Directors in 2020.
Her previous film, “I’ll Meet You There,” was in the Grand Jury competition at SXSW in 2020 and was banned on its release in Pakistan. “Wakhri” follows a widowed school teacher in Pakistan who becomes a viral sensation overnight when she accidentally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social media. This newfound fame as an unlikely influencer comes with its own challenges as she has to navigate archaic mindsets and secret identities while raising her 10-year-old son in a world where women’s rights to having a voice and owning space, physical or online, are a constant challenge.
The film is inspired by Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch who was murdered in 2016. “Qandeel Baloch was a raunchy social media star from the poorer masses of Pakistan. Unleashing the brave and provocative; wildly popular and wildly hated.
We learned of her exactly a week before she was brutally murdered… by her brother. It was an atypical honor killing because the family was well aware of her ‘ways’ and were also financially gaining from it. It was a new way of experiencing ‘shame.’ It was a new kind of ‘lynching.’ It was an incredibly horrific perfect storm brewing, in huge part, by immense social media trolling and in part by the indefatigable patriarchal society we live in,” Bilal says in an artistic statement about “Wakhri.” “What triggered the writing of this story was her resilient and irreverent spirit.
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