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So it was a remarkable experience across the board, working with these incredible actors, Amrit Kaur [Azra, the protagonist] and Hamza Haq [Hassan, her father] and Nimra Bucha [Mariam, her mother], who are such professional,...

KH: It must have been hard to transform those images in Pakistan into the 1960s. FW: Pakistan does not look the same. Karachi does not look the same. There’s just so many more...

KH: The casting of Amrit Kaur from the TV series Sex Lives of College Girls as Azra, the protagonist, was perfect. How did she become involved?  FW: We worked with...

Marilyn Cooke is a fast-rising star in the Canadian film industry. Born and raised in Montreal, Cooke’s love for film began in a DVD rental store where she...

I was struck by Keity’s features; her dominance as the central figure of the film evoked memories of Ousmane Sembène’s 1966 film Black Girl [La Noire de…]. The third film...

Mati Diop has downplayed Sembène’s influence on her work in favour of her uncle, Djibril Diop Mambety’s filmography. Samba Gadjigo, the foremost scholar on Sembène, argues that Sembène paved the way...