Red Sea Film Festival: Pakistani-Canadian film ‘In Flames’ wins award

in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Red Sea International Film Festival Pakistanis at the closing ceremony on Thursday of the third edition of Canadian The horror film ‘In Flames’ made one hundred thousand dollars AnnaI won.

According to the website Variety.com, the director of the horror film, Zarar Khan, said that the film was made with a budget of three hundred thousand dollars, which is the equivalent of the Red Sea Fund production grant.

He emphasized that ‘everyone who gets a grant to make a film should make a film because a film can be made with a small amount of money.’

of the Red Sea Film Festival website The story of the film is introduced in these words.

Maryam is a medical student with her mother Farah and younger brother Karachi Lives in a small flat.

When her father dies leaving behind a mountain of debt, an uncle comes forward to offer to settle the debts, following which he slowly evicts Asta Maryam and her mother from their apartment. try to do

‘The legal system, which is once morest women, does not provide them with any protection. Farah, sad and isolated, has little energy to fight. Mary takes refuge in romance with a kind fellow student, but her mental health is deteriorating.

During the event, passionate calls for peace in Palestine were made.

British-born Palestinian filmmaker and human rights activist Farah Nabulsi, who won the Jury Award for her film ‘The Teacher’. He had shot a film in Palestine a few years ago under very difficult conditions. The film highlighted the issues that have emerged in today’s climate of Israeli aggression.

“It would be shameful for me not to pay attention to the current disaster in Gaza,” he said to applause from the audience.

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According to Nabulsi: ‘The words that come to mind are those of the long-dead British philosopher Bertrandsell, who said this in the 1970s and was referring to Palestine. ‘How long will the world continue to see this spectacle of persecution.’

The Silver User Award for Best Feature Film went to Tarseem Singh for ‘Dear Jasi’. A co-production between India, Canada and the US, the film is based on the true story of a Canadian Punjabi woman who falls in love with a working-class man while failing to live up to her family’s expectations. Decided to marry. Later the woman was killed.

Pointing to the global media, Singh requested the media to stop using the term ‘honour killing’.

“There is no honor in killing your daughter or sister if you marry (outside your class),” he said.

Hollywood stars Nicolas Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Jason Statham and Adrien Brody were also present at the closing ceremony of the third edition of the film festival.