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🎬 Films and stories that matter
"Zindagi Tamasha Deconstructed: A podcast" is now available on YouTube

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We are so excited to present to you our 4-part series of Recorded Lectures available on Patreon to help you master the art of storytelling through film https://t.co/LBNtgp4GpN

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LALI travels to Austin.

Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s film is an Official Selection at the Austin Asian American Film Festival 2026 - screening 24 to 28 June.

The world keeps meeting her.

And Pakistan - she’s coming home soon. Watch this space.

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A special moment for us.

LALI directed by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat has received an Honourable Mention at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA). A recognition that means the world to the team behind it!

But this is just the beginning.

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Los Angeles, we’re coming.

LALI has its US Premiere at IFFLA, April 23 to 26.

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Pakistan to Argentina.

LALI screens at BAFICI, Buenos Aires, till April 26.

Grateful to BAFICI for making space for this story.

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LALI is now screening at the Istanbul Film Festival, running through April 19.

Sarmad Sultan Khoosat is there in person, watching the film meet new eyes for the first time.

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One film. Four countries. One April.

Istanbul → Buenos Aires → Los Angeles → Vienna.

LALI travels the world this April.

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From our soil to your adopted city.

If you’re from Pakistan and in Berlin,
come watch LALI with us at Berlinale Panorama 2026.

Screening on 19th Feb!

Tickets👇🏼

https://t.co/laILSQYeSU

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It begins in Berlin.

LALI
World Premiere - 19 Feb | Zoo Palast 1

From silence to spectacle.
From ritual to rupture.
And then - red.

See you at Berlinale Panorama 2026.

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A marriage.
A myth.
And the tension in between.

The LALI trailer is now live.
Watch now!

https://t.co/YfirMUIqrf

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This is where it begins.
Two fates. One inherited union - already turning red.

LALI
A film by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
Official selection - Berlinale

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The groom arrives.
Desire stirs. Superstition watches.

LALI
A film by Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
Premiering at Berlinale Panorama

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This is cinema that bends form, resists comfort,
and asks difficult questions without offering easy answers.

What remains is heat.
And release.

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*Caption:*

Fear doesn’t arrive all at once.
It seeps in.
Through doubt, silence, and the things we’re taught not to name.

Lali comes from that place.
Where love and control blur.
Where marriage carries ghosts.

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From Manto to Kamli to Zindagi Tamasha, Sarmad Khoosat has built a body of work that explores desire, silence, and the cost of being seen - stories rooted in Pakistan, yet deeply universal.
Lali feels like the next step in that journey.
Quieter.
More assured.

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There are filmmakers who tell stories.
And then there are those who return to the same questions, again and again, until they become cinema.

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Some films ask you to look closer.

At the jewelry that’s been worn before.
At silk that already knows the body.
At a bus that’s carried more stories than passengers.

That kind of detail doesn’t happen by accident.
It’s shaped by careful eyes and thoughtful hands.

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Some names carry heat.

Lali.

Like a red sun that refuses to set.
A mark of desire.
A warning.
A fate whispered long before it arrives.

You don’t look at it for answers.
You feel it stay with you.

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Some stories don’t announce themselves.
They linger.
They haunt.
They resonate.

LALI
Official Selection - Berlinale 2026

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LALI - a Khoosat Films production in collaboration with @EnsoStudios.ae is going to Berlinale. A world premiere at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival.
Our hearts are full of gratitude, of stories, of all those who held this film with care.