CREATIVE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | 90 MIN |MAHEEN ZIA/MADIHA AIJAZ
[English title: Then They Would be Gone] In Pakistani villages, the arrival of a mela (fair), with its luscious performers, used to be a reprieve for the farmers and their families. Except, the melas are disappearing as the religious right comes down hard, security is upped, cable television permeates and the money dries up for the performers.
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