Film

A FILM by a Bradford actor/director is being screened at a Pakistani film festival touring UK cities.

“Salaam Pakistan is the first of its kind in the North and the Midlands,” said Zafar Ali, whose film Woh 1 Din has been screened in Bradford for the festival. Zafar directed and acted in Woh 1 Din, based on a real life case of a woman whose life is ruined in one day by an arranged marriage. “There was a good turn-out for this in Bradford last Saturday,” said Zafar. “A Q&A session afterwards touched lots of people.”

Other films screened at the festival, running until March 31, include Home (at Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds, along with Who 1 Din, on March 24); Song of Lahore, by Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, looking at music traditions of Pakistan’s great cultural city; and Saving Face, examining the harrowing issue of acid attacks in Pakistan. The film, which follows the quest of young women survivors as they fight for justice and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to the country to save faces and lives, is screened in a double bill with A Girl in the River, a documentary about a young woman who survives an honour killing attempt.

Also on the programme is Josh, about a schoolteacher who goes in search of her missing nanny, political thriller Rahm and

epic love story Lakeer.

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