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SUMMARY:Film Screening:CSAS South Asian Film Festival | Wakhri
DESCRIPTION:CSAS will be kicking off this year's Pakistan Conference with the screening of Wakhri\, along with a Q&A with its filmmaker\, at the Michigan Theater.\n\nFilmmaker Iram Parveen Bilal takes inspiration from the story of Qandeel Baloch in crafting this compelling drama. Baloch was Pakistan’s first social media celebrity\, who often used her platform to speak out against the patriarchy\, until her brother murdered her in an act of “honor” killing. Her life planted the seeds from which spring this film’s widowed schoolteacher Noor and her queer best friend Guchhi. To live out their dreams and aspirations\, the pair leads double lives. In bright makeup and flashy wigs\, Noor and Guchhi adopt brash\, fearless social media personas\, representing a freedom so enticing that people can’t look away. Too often the cinemascape has portrayed Muslim women and queer people from the Global South as victimized objects of pity. Wakhri has a different tale to tell\, one that celebrates the resilience with which its protagonists demand equality within a flawed society.\n   \nFilm trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7xs0fif2fo\n   \n   For tickets\, please visit: https://marquee-arts.org/event-page/tickets/?showingId=907392\n   \n   The screening is free and open to the public.\n   \n   *Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.*
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129535
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Asian Languages And Cultures,Center For South Asian Studies,Film,Pakistan
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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