London Pakistani Film Festival presents Zindagi Tamasha (Circus of Life). The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Sarmad Khoosat, moderated by Assad Khan .

A devout Muslim who writes composes, and even records hymns praising the Prophet, Muhammad Rahat Khawaja is a respected elderly man who works in real estate and takes care of his bedridden wife. One day, he attends the wedding of a friend’s son, where he inadvertently shows off a dance in front of his friends and family. His dance gets recorded and then uploaded to all social media platforms, which then also gets broadcasted on television. And the chaos begins to ensue in his quiet life. Other than his wife, no one else in the world understands Rahat’s circumstance. His daughters and neighbors criticize him, his friends turn their backs on him. Circus of Life provides a calm and detailed picture of challenging issues in a strict Muslim society and the search for the identity of an elderly man who gradually comes to realize his “minoritiness."

The London Pakistani Film Festival (LPFF) is an annual celebration of films and drama’s from or about the Pakistani Diaspora. The festival will be held in London with special guest and talks, followed by a red carpet film awards ceremony, thus making it the largest Pakistani films and Pakistani drama’s festival in the world, outside of Pakistan.

Our goal is to bring the rich artistic and modern culture of Pakistan and experiences & contacts of the Pakistani diaspora portrayed through film to the mainstream platform.