Karmash (2025)
- Country
- Pakistan
- Runtime
- 15 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short film looks at memory and ancestry. It uses a poetic and fragmented style to show cultural erasure.
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What happens
Karmash is a 2025 Pakistani experimental short film written and directed by Aleem Bukhari. It premiered on 22 May 2025 at the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes) section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film explores memory, ancestry, and cultural erasure through a fragmented and poetic cinematic style. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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