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If you read The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns, DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT is a must-see, with its compelling reminders that Khaled Hosseini didn’t pull his stories out of thin air.
The Kansas City StarSumar’s interviewees address a range of concerns—from poverty to militarism to education––but the film finds a particular, recurring focus in the question of women’s rights.
PopMattersSabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan examine where their homeland will be in ten years, and the answer reveals a nation full of contradictions: happily servile, fiercely individualistic, traditional, modern, educated, ignorant, cosmopolitan, rural, secular and devout. Democratic? Maybe, maybe not.
Time Out New YorkFilmmakers Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan go in search of nothing less than the meaning of democracy in Pakistan. That's an impossibly large subject for a documentary, but the movie finds a number of ways to make small, engaging points on the political evolution of Pakistan.
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