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Pakistan film industry wins with Dhoom!

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LAHORE: After a crisis of almost four weeks during which the import of all foreign films in Pakistan, including Hollywood and Bollywood movies, had become a question mark, Pakistani film and cinema industry has once again come out victorious. An understanding reached between the Pakistan Film Producers Association and Pakistan Exhibitors Association finally led to […]


European Cinema Weekend to screen six foreign films

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To celebrate the relationship between France and Germany, the Goethe Institut and Alliance Francaise de Karachi have organised the European Cinema Weekend, due to take place this coming Saturday and Sunday. According to a press release, six French and German films will be screened on November 23 at the Goethe Institute, and on November 24 […]


Proposed tax on foreign films seen as threat to cinema revival

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KARACHI: The government’s proposal in the new budget to impose a ‘new adjustable withholding tax’ on foreign films and teleplays on Wednesday sent gloomier signals to local exhibitors who see it as a huge blow to an industry which had just started to revive. Critics say Pakistani cinema houses have seen themselves wrecked and broken […]