In Flames
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.
Artistic & technical sheet
Ramesha Nawal (Mariam), Bakhtawar Mazhar (Fariha), Omar Javaid (Asad), Mohammad Ali Hashmi (Saleem), Adnan Shah Tipu (Uncle Nasir), Jibraan Khan (Bilal)
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)
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foreign sales
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distribution
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