Pakistan
Muneeb Hassan talks about his feature film debut ALL THE MEN I’VE MET BUT NEVER DATED….a very true story
Pakistani gay filmmaker Muneeb Hassan’s debut feature film is ripped from the pages of his own life . Ali far from his home country and living in New York but still finds it impossible to live openly as a gay man. When he meets (very hot) Oliver in the gym one day he…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah raves about JOYLAND an award-winning queer film from Pakistan
The past few years have seen an increase in queer-themed films coming out of Muslim countries. Hot on the heels of Morocco’s excellent Le Bleu Caftan – soon to be screened at a Saudi Arabian film festival – comes Joyland, the directorial debut from Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq With famous activist Malala Yousafzai as…
Abu : Father
In 2012 when his father passed newbie filmmaker Arshad Khan was working on putting together his first fiction feature, but having gone through a wealth of archival home videos in preparing for the memorial service, Khan slowly came to realize that he wanted, and needed instead to tell his own story of growing up gay…
Among The Believers
This new documentary by filmmakers Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi makes a sterling attempt to a semblance of an understandable explanation of the ongoing internecine war in Pakistan between the government authorities and the Taliban insurgents. They start with the cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi who heads up the Red Mosque network of schools known as…
