Clear your calendars peeps. The Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) is all set to begin on March 29th, and boy oh boy is the lineup of speakers is simply fantastic!
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PIFF will be held in Karachi and will run until April 1st.It’s a great platform to promote our thriving cinema, and for filmmakers to have their due as they showcase their films to a panel of esteemed veterans. Documentaries, short films, and feature-length films will be screened during the four-day festival.
Films like ‘Cake,’ ‘The Song Of Scorpions’ starring Irrfan Khan and Mehreen Jabbar’s ‘Lala Begum’ are three films that will be screened at the prestigious festival
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Bollywood’s Nandita Das will be present, leading a panel on ‘Film Diplomacy And Crossborder Collaboration’
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Acclaimed Indian director SS Rajamouli, the man behind successful franchise ‘Baahubali’
Baahubali has given me opportunities to travel to a number of countries… The most exciting of them all is now, Pakistan. Thank you Pakistan international film festival, Karachi for the invite.
— rajamouli ss (@ssrajamouli) March 28, 2018
And…ready for the best part of it all?
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Acclaimed Bollywood director VISHAL BHARDWAJ WILL BE ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL TOO
The venerated director music composer, screenwriter and man behind cult classics ‘Omkara,’ ‘Haider’ and ‘Maqbool’ (among a plethora of other critically acclaimed films) will be headlining a talk for ‘Films For Change: Socially Motivated Content In South Asian Film Industry.’
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Are you excited about the lineup? We know we are!
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