Slackistan
Filmmaker: Shananda Ayub & Hammad Khan
Pakistan / 2010 / 87 minutes / English
Opening Weekend Date: 28 November 2010
Cinemas screening the film: Asia House, Cine Lumiere, Rich Mix & Watermans. Key Cities from Jan 2011
Dubbed 'Pakistan's first slacker movie', Slackistan follows a group of westernised twenty-something friends as they drift aimlessly around town, partying, surfing the internet and smoking shisha pipes - until Hasan realises that Aisha and his filmmaking dreams could drift away too.
As the country outside their insular world starts to crack, Hasan and his friends must face up to relationships, internal angst and life choices before it is too late.
Slackistan is the debut film from British-Pakistani North London-based screenwriter and producer Shananda Ayub, and is co-written and directed by her husband Hammad Khan.
'One of the most well made, insteresting films I saw at Cannes'
Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker Magazine
'It points to a country that is rarely explored in modern cinema, TV or literature'
The Guardian