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In Flames

Quinzaine 2023 | Feature film | 98 min | Canada, Pakistan
World premiere | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

After the respected head of family dies in Karachi, his widow and her daughter Mariam, a student, are confronted head-on with the violence and abuse of noxious and unsparring patriarchy. While the film’s argument could have stuck to the psychological and sociological, In Flames goes a step further, with accents of fantasy and horror. The film’s baroque morbidity is not a simple allegory but an explicit depiction: yes, the condition of Pakistani women in an empire of darkness is the stuff of horror films.

Cast

Ramesha Nawal (Mariam), Bakhtawar Mazhar (Fariha), Omar Javaid (Asad), Mohammad Ali Hashmi (Saleem), Adnan Shah Tipu (Uncle Nasir), Jibraan Khan (Bilal)

Team

Screenplay
Zarrar Kahn

Photography
Aigul Nurbulatova

Sound
Bret Killoran

Production design
Matti Malik

Editing
Craig Scorgie, Zarrar Kahn

Music
Kalaisan Kalaichelvan

production
Other Memory Media (Pakistan)
Anam Abbas
+92 315 505 3361
othermemorymedia@gmail.com 
www.othermemorymedia.com 

 

CityLights Media Inc. (Canada)
Hamza Bangash
+92 647 745 8108
citylightsmedia.inc@gmail.com 
www.citylightsmediapro.com 

 

foreign sales
XYZ Films
+34 692 44 61 91
manon@xyzfilms.com 
www.xyzfilms.com 

 

distribution
The Jokers Films
info@thejokersfilms.com 
www.thejokersfilms.com 

 

international press
Required Viewing
Steven Raphael
sterapha@aol.com 

Screenings in Cannes

Théâtre Croisette - 05/19/2023  8.30am

Théâtre Croisette - 05/19/2023 4.30pm

Cinéma Le Raimu - 05/20/2023 10.00am

Cinéma Les Arcades / Salle 1 - 05/20/2023 11.30am

Cinéma La Licorne - 05/20/2023 2.00pm

Cinéma Alexandre III - 05/20/2023 4.30pm

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