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Humad Nisar
Germany, Iceland, Pakistan, Poland, USA 2022 | 41 Min. | engl. subtitled

Mon, 15-May-23 07:30 PM
Q&A with:
Humad Nisar

The topic of “home” goes beyond the four walls of the house­hold. For queer people, it is often a com­plex enigma. In an effort to decolonise nar­ra­tive film­mak­ing, direc­tor Humad Nisar used par­tic­i­pa­to­ry film­mak­ing meth­ods and col­lab­o­rat­ed with var­i­ous queer par­tic­i­pants in Pak­istan and the dias­po­ra. The result is an unusu­al, exper­i­men­tal col­lage that tries to grasp the com­plex enigma of what “home” means for Pak­istani Queer people. How do they nav­i­gate through inti­ma­cy and belong­ing in order to create a feel­ing of ‘home’ in a coun­try where one’s exis­tence is being ille­gal­ized?