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The Screen Guide

From Australian artist and documentarian George Gittoes comes an impassioned and truly urgent film about the struggle against the Taliban. Gittoes becomes fascinated with the cheap, melodramatic films churned out in the frontier areas of Pakistan. These films are full of snarling villains, comic midgets and dancing heroines. Their absurd violence seems to hold a crazy mirror up to what is happening all around, but they are ruthlessly opposed by the truly violent religious hardliners who see them

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Production Details

Production Completion
2008
Genre
Art and culture, Drama, History and national identity

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Gittoes & Dalton Productions