LAHORE, Sept 24: Six films were screened on the last day of the first international film festival here on Monday at Rafi Peer Cultural Complex, Raiwind Road.

The fest concluded with a performance by folk singer Sain Zahoor.

The movies were from Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh and United Kingdom.

Pakistan films included ‘Salakhain’ and ‘Salam Shahid Exhibition.’ ‘Salakhain’ tells the story of an innocent, hardworking student who hails from a lower middle class family and is in love with an equally innocent and sweet young girl. A strange twist of events lands him in a dispute with the booty mafia (people facilitating cheating during exams), resulting in his arrest, his father’s death and his mother going mad, one following the other in quick succession. In jail he meets a man who knows his enemies well and has his own issues to pick up with them. The rest is a story filled with love, action, revenge and closure.

‘Salam Shahid Exhibition’ is a surrealistic commentary on current events occurring in Pakistan. The emcee, Master of Ceremonies, facially made up as a clown, knits the film as well as unravels and comments on the segments or vignettes. The unwary spectators who have come to see the exhibition are at his mercy. The Exhibition itself is like an installation where human actors perform and represent aspects of life in Pakistan.

‘Chitra Nadir Pare’ was the movie from Bangladesh. An elderly Hindu lawyer, portrayed by famous Momtajuddin Ahmed, refused to go to India leaving his forefathers’ property in the then Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He sent his boy to India according to that boy’s will, but his daughter stayed with his father and aunt near their favourite river, ‘Chitra’. This river seemed to play a central part for their staying in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

‘Alzheimer’ was from Iran. This movie talks about a man Mahmmoud whose sons give him some medication to reduce his memory. They try to do this in order to take his money to pay back their debts. He decides to teach them a hard lesson.

The movie ‘Strings of Passion’ was from India. It is a story of three boys who meet after a period and begin reliving their past.

The movie from United Kingdom was ‘Sisters in Faith.’ The film takes a look at some 800,000 Muslim women living in Britain today. Among them are Ruby, Radwan and Tanzeela Khan. This documentary film is all about the circumstances they are facing in UK.

A large number of people attended the festival and enjoyed laser light and puppet shows.