Pakistan
In this extensive interview, we spoke to Mohammed Naqvi about his riveting documentary The Accused: Damned or Devoted? about the difficulty of gaining access, comparisons between Rizvi and Trump and much more.
Continuing to earn remarkable access and focus on taboo topics, in The Accused: Damned or Devoted? Naqvi turns his lens to Pakistan’s blasphemy law.
While Dev Patel brings the best performance possible, it’s hard to root for any characters in The Wedding Guest, with a story that never really knows what it wants to be.
What Will People Say is a brutal yet powerful study of the effects of subjugation on a young woman in a highly patriarchal society.
At one point in Good Morning Karachi, a fashion photographer is vocal about the contemporary image of Pakistani femininity and culture he believes his photos represent. He claims that his company is the “women’s revolution the country has been waiting for” and that a simple fashion photoshoot can portray a more forward-thinking society to international citizens who portray Pakistan as a bunch of “fundamentalists”. Yet the views about femininity presented by director Sabiha Sumar in Good Morning Karachi are as confused as those presented by a photographer who believes photos of supermodels represents a realistic feminist ideal and aspiration in society.
