It's not often that horror movies make heads turn in society and promote social change but such is the case with Pakistani ghost story In Flames - winner at the last Red Sea Film Festival and Pakistan's nominee for the Oscars, the movie has worked its way through the festival circuit and is now on cinema release in Pakistan and beyond.
The blurb: After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The daughter, Mariam (Ramesha Nawal), medical student, is well rid of her ultra-conservative father but horror-of-horrors, the mean old b------ comes back to haunt her. There is enough tension and jump scares to keep the western viewer happy but the movie has a deeper resonance for Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world where traditional patriarchic values are being challenged by a young generation who look to other social structures to provide a more inclusive mores.
This is Ramesha's first movie - but you would never guess it.
The blurb: After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The daughter, Mariam (Ramesha Nawal), medical student, is well rid of her ultra-conservative father but horror-of-horrors, the mean old b------ comes back to haunt her. There is enough tension and jump scares to keep the western viewer happy but the movie has a deeper resonance for Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world where traditional patriarchic values are being challenged by a young generation who look to other social structures to provide a more inclusive mores.
This is Ramesha's first movie - but you would never guess it.
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