'In Flames' director Zarrar Kahn talks balancing real-world social issues in genre film

08/01/24 • 27 min

In this episode of the VIFF Podcast, filmmaker Zarrar Kahn talks about his debut feature film, In Flames , with VIFF Director of Programming Curtis Woloschuk.
In Flames, which premiered at Cannes 2023 and screened at VIFF 2023, follows a mother and daughter navigating loss and supernatural forces in Karachi, Pakistan. 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.
This conversation was recorded remotely.

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