
In Flames
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After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter's precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
The first Pakistani film to screen in Cannes Directors' Fortnight in almost 50 years is a ghostly parable and indictment of the country’s patriarchal order.
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“In Flames does not let its characters, or audience, rest easy in its earthy, tangible hauntings, ones that spring from the violence barely contained beneath a veneer of politeness and conformity to which only some are truly subject.”
Screen Anarchy
“A slow burn of a film that successfully builds a growing sense of unease”
Screen Daily
“Haunting... Khan uses techniques borrowed from the horror genre to address the experience of living an environment where one is seen as less than fully human, or even as prey.”
Eye For Film


