Short Pakistani Films in San Francisco

A newly formed group called “Buniyad” (Foundation) along with the KaraFilm Society put together “Karachi Kamera,” a viewing of “Short Films from Pakistan” in San Francisco.

Included in this June 25 program at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco was an interesting beginning film, which asked a number of (non-South Asian) people on the street in this area, a puzzling question, “What is Karachi?”

This was followed by Adnan Malik’s “Bijli” (Electricity), Farjad Nabi’s “Nusrat has Left the Building”, Sharmeen Obaid’s “On a Razor’s Edge”, Mehreen Jabbar’s “Beauty Parlor”, Farjad Nabi’s “Cricket Lives in Lahore,” and last but not least a subset of Matteela’s “Dus Gungee Filmain” (10 Silent Films).