Film Screening: Slackistan January 13, 2011

Director: H Khan, 2010, 85mins, cert TBC English/Urdu with subtitles.

You think you know Pakistan… think again! The new film by award winning team of Hammad Khan (Emerging International Film-maker award Karachi/Best Short Film Raindance) and Menhaj Huda (Kidulthood) reimagines the American slacker-movie genre in a Pakistani setting. Slackistan focuses on a group of privileged college graduates who fritter their days away in the sleepy capital city of Islamabad. The characters struggle to face up to reality as the country outside their small world begins to fall apart. Includes post-screening Q&A with director Hammad Khan and Menhaj Huda.