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In Flames

A film by Zarrar Kahn
Pakistan, Canada
98 min. 2023

55th Cannes Director’s Fortnight
Pakistan Official Submission for
the 96th Academy Awards®
John Dunning Best First Feature Film – Canadian Screen Awards

DIRECTOR
Zarrar Kahn

PRODUCER
Anam Abbas

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Shant Joshi
Todd Brown
Maxime Cottray
Carol Ann Noronha

PRODUCTION COMPANIES
CityLights Media
Other Memory Media

IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Fae Pictures
XYZ Films

IN PARTICIPATION WITH
Telefilm Canada
The Talent Fund
Canada Council for the Arts

DEVELOPED WITH
Frontieres Market @ Cannes
Berlinale Talents Project Market
Locarno Open Doors

In Flames finely straddles the line between a bold genre exercise and a bruising portrait of contemporary Pakistan to deliver a welcome story about resistance and resilience

Variety

SYNOPSIS

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.

PRESS

> Masterfully blends the topical and the universal to create a Kafkaesque nightmare
-Indiewire

>A haunting tale of oppression.
-Hollywood Reporter

> In Flames in an intense psychological horror, one that tightens its vice with a slow and deliberate intensity that challenges the viewer to feel what it’s like to have your every move, every thought questioned, mocked, until you are backed into a corner with no way out.
-Screen Anarchy

> The intense craft and torque we saw in Ari Aster’s Hereditary, but with more heart and conviction.
-The Globe & Mail

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

Red Sea FF – Golden Yusr Award for Best Feature
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Newcomer Award
CMPA Kevin Tierney Award for Emerging Producer | IFFSA Best Feature Film

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