Today was the first public screening at Kara Film Festival. I was there for day screenings which started at 1 and ended at 7. It was a great experience which Karachites were missing for two years. It is useless about reviewing or talking about movies because reading about it isn’t something as exciting as seeing them as that is the real business. You don’t write about movies, you write movies.

As this time, there were lack of funds so they had to cut one venue short so one is left is kind of same type of movies. I might only be one who is feeling that way but at least we get to see something. Our local tele-films were in abundance today and I seriously feel that we are really good with stories and characterization but we need to work on screenplay and camera angles/composition big time. I was disappointed to see that one of the films didn’t have subtitles but thankfully they shut the DVD in time as it was of no use to watch characters talking in a different language when you don’t understand a word.

Highlights of the day were surely the documentaries. One Indian documentary ‘Shanti Plus’ which takes away the cake for it’s not-so-intellectual storyboard and content. Two by our own Pakistani directors. One of which was a good projection of Tehrik-e-Niswan’s work and other was kind of personal search for spirituality.

Please guys visit this event and support the cultural scene.