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Oscars: Director of Pakistani Contender 'Circus of Life' on Facing Death Threats and Censorship

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For most directors, having your film picked to represent your country at the Oscars is a career-high. But forSarmad Sultan Khoosat, whose drama Circus of Life is Pakistan's contender for Best International Film at the 2021 Academy Awards, the experience is bittersweet.

The drama, about a devout Muslim man whose life is upended when a video of him dancing goes viral on social media, will be screening for Academy voters but not for locals.

A combination of state censorship, the coronavirus pandemic, and a concerted hate campaign by far-right extremists have meant the only people who have been able to see Circus of Life have been those outside Pakistan.

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