Zarrar Khan’s In Flames has picked up the Yusr Award for best competition film at the third edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The festival, which attracted such Hollywood stars as Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth and Sharon Stone, on Thursday evening unveiled the winners of its Red Sea competition honors, the so-called Yusr awards, as well as other prizes.
Khan’s Pakistani-Canadian horror pic that bowed in Cannes portrays a mother and daughter having to navigate loss, oppression and vulnerability after the death of the family patriarch. The debut feature is rendered as a ghost story as they must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The Silver Yusr award for best feature went to Tarsem Singh’s modern day tragic drama Dear Jassi, which bowed in Toronto, where it won the 2023 Platform Prize.
The festival, which attracted such Hollywood stars as Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Chris Hemsworth and Sharon Stone, on Thursday evening unveiled the winners of its Red Sea competition honors, the so-called Yusr awards, as well as other prizes.
Khan’s Pakistani-Canadian horror pic that bowed in Cannes portrays a mother and daughter having to navigate loss, oppression and vulnerability after the death of the family patriarch. The debut feature is rendered as a ghost story as they must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The Silver Yusr award for best feature went to Tarsem Singh’s modern day tragic drama Dear Jassi, which bowed in Toronto, where it won the 2023 Platform Prize.
- 12/7/2023
- by Georg Szalai and Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The titles include Zarrar Kahn’s Directors’ Fortnight selection In Flames.
Scandinavian and Baltic distributor NonStop Entertainment has been on a buying spree for 20 titles since Sundance.
The titles include Zarrar Kahn’s Directors’ Fortnight selection In Flames for which NonStop has acquired Scandinavian and Icelandic rights from XYZ Films, and Return To Reason, the restored 4K version of the four improvisational films that Man Ray made from 1923-1929.
It has a Cannes Classics screening with a new soundtrack composed by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band Sqürl. NonStop acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltics rights from Film Constellation.
From the Berlinale,...
Scandinavian and Baltic distributor NonStop Entertainment has been on a buying spree for 20 titles since Sundance.
The titles include Zarrar Kahn’s Directors’ Fortnight selection In Flames for which NonStop has acquired Scandinavian and Icelandic rights from XYZ Films, and Return To Reason, the restored 4K version of the four improvisational films that Man Ray made from 1923-1929.
It has a Cannes Classics screening with a new soundtrack composed by Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band Sqürl. NonStop acquired Scandinavian, Icelandic and Baltics rights from Film Constellation.
From the Berlinale,...
- 5/20/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
In Zarrar Kahn’s eerie debut feature In Flames, the oppressive obstacles of the patriarchy are rendered as a ghost story. White-eyed apparitions haunt corners of rooms; uncanny sounds, resembling owl calls, carry us across scenes; and a visual palette of fiery reds and ghastly greens set the tone, filling the film with spooky-tale conventions.
Death instigates the horror of Kahn’s narrative, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes. When Mariam’s grandfather, the patriarch of their household in Karachi, dies, the young woman (played by Ramesha Nawal) and her family are suddenly left imperiled. Everything — the house, the car, various accounts — are in his name, which means any men in the extended family ostensibly have a right to seize them. The 25-year old medical student worries about her bereaved mother Fariah (Bakhtawar Mazhar) and her spacey brother Bilal (Jibraan Khan).
The pressures Mariam faces mount when...
Death instigates the horror of Kahn’s narrative, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes. When Mariam’s grandfather, the patriarch of their household in Karachi, dies, the young woman (played by Ramesha Nawal) and her family are suddenly left imperiled. Everything — the house, the car, various accounts — are in his name, which means any men in the extended family ostensibly have a right to seize them. The 25-year old medical student worries about her bereaved mother Fariah (Bakhtawar Mazhar) and her spacey brother Bilal (Jibraan Khan).
The pressures Mariam faces mount when...
- 5/19/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
XYZ Films will handle North American sales rights on the upcoming In Flames, Variety reports this morning, with the website also sharing the first-look image from the movie up above.
In the Pakistani horror movie from writer/director Zarrar Kahn…
“After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.”
Variety notes that In Flames is a Canada-Pakistan co-production with support from Telefilm Canada. Production companies include CityLights Media, Other Memory Media and Fae Pictures.
Kahn said in a statement, “We’re thrilled to partner with XYZ films in bringing In Flames to audiences. Our goal was to create a film that speaks to the international potential of Pakistani genre cinema, and it is...
In the Pakistani horror movie from writer/director Zarrar Kahn…
“After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.”
Variety notes that In Flames is a Canada-Pakistan co-production with support from Telefilm Canada. Production companies include CityLights Media, Other Memory Media and Fae Pictures.
Kahn said in a statement, “We’re thrilled to partner with XYZ films in bringing In Flames to audiences. Our goal was to create a film that speaks to the international potential of Pakistani genre cinema, and it is...
- 11/23/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
XYZ Films has boarded horror film “In Flames” and will handle North American sales rights.
In the Karachi-set film, after the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The film is directed by Zarrar Kahn, an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian writer, director and producer, produced by Pakistani-Canadian Anam Abbas and executive produced by Indian-American Shant Joshi.
“In Flames” is officially a Canada-Pakistan co-production with support from Telefilm Canada. Production companies include CityLights Media, Other Memory Media and Fae Pictures.
The film is currently in post production and working towards a festival premiere in 2023.
Kahn said: “We’re thrilled to partner with XYZ films in bringing ‘In Flames’ to audiences. Our goal was to create a...
In the Karachi-set film, after the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart by figures from their past – both real and phantasmal. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The film is directed by Zarrar Kahn, an award-winning Pakistani-Canadian writer, director and producer, produced by Pakistani-Canadian Anam Abbas and executive produced by Indian-American Shant Joshi.
“In Flames” is officially a Canada-Pakistan co-production with support from Telefilm Canada. Production companies include CityLights Media, Other Memory Media and Fae Pictures.
The film is currently in post production and working towards a festival premiere in 2023.
Kahn said: “We’re thrilled to partner with XYZ films in bringing ‘In Flames’ to audiences. Our goal was to create a...
- 11/23/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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