Reviews

Erupcja review – a witty and tender adventure
Köln 75 review – hammers with propulsive, irresistible energy
Tuner review – woefully off-key
Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy about songwriting and plagiarism
Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and admirably subtle
Hen review – a strange, uniquely compelling film

Features

In Sangeeta's Society Girl, sex work is all work
Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen celebration of small-screen curiosities
A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2
Hacks was always a love story
Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at 100
The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

Contributor Manahil Tahira

Manahil Tahira is a journalist and cultural critic based in Karachi with an interest in cinema. They write the Watchlist column for Dunya Digital.

In Praise Of

In Sangeeta's Society Girl, sex work is all work

by Manahil Tahira

As Society Girl marks its 50^th anniversary, Pakistani filmmaker Sangeeta’s portrait of sex, labour, and survival is long overdue for a second look.

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Erupcja review – a witty and tender adventure

Köln 75 review – hammers with propulsive, irresistible energy

Tuner review – woefully off-key

Power Ballad review – amiable musical comedy about songwriting and plagiarism

Backrooms review – sincerely disturbing and admirably subtle

Hen review – a strange, uniquely compelling film

In Sangeeta's Society Girl, sex work is all work

Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen celebration of small-screen curiosities

A T&M Cannes Film Festival Special #2

Hacks was always a love story

Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at 100

The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review

In Sangeeta's Society Girl, sex work is all work