Khajistan Announces Bay Area Screenings of Showgirls of Pakistan
by Khajistan Cultural Desk
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Khajistan is pleased to share two Bay Area screenings of the feature documentary Showgirls of Pakistan directed by Khajistan founder Saad Khan this April.
Showgirls of Pakistan follows Afreen Khan, Uzma Khan, and Reema Jaan, three performers moving through the Pakistani mujra world under the weight of censorship, stigma, exploitation, spectacle, and desire. Built through intimate vérité, self-shot footage, and archival material, the documentary does more than observe. It restores texture to lives and labor usually flattened by moral panic or consumed as taboo. The Roxie describes the film as a portrait of dancers confronting predatory managers and social stigma while pursuing stardom, using social-media videos and archival footage from Pakistani film and television to place their stories within a longer history of screen culture. - Roxie
Screening Details
Roxie Theater, San Francisco Screening and Q&A with Director Saad Khan
Showgirls of Pakistan
Sunday, April 19, 2026
3:15 PM
Big Roxie, Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Director Saad Khan in person for Q&A
Moderated by Delaney Chieyen Holton
Stanford Screening + Q&A with Director Saad Khan
Showgirls of Pakistan: Film Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Saad Khan
Monday, April 20, 2026
5:00–7:30 PM
Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Q&A moderated by Professor Usha Iyer
Free with RSVP; open to the general public
Showgirls of Pakistan is not simply a documentary about dance. It is a record of how performance, femininity, class, risk, and media memory collide. It asks what it means to be looked at, desired, judged, and erased, sometimes all at once. It also asks who gets remembered with dignity, and who is left to survive in fragments.
