Locarno Sufi Trance Doc ‘As Light as Air’ Director Umair Bilal on Surrendering to a Pakistani Shrine Town: ‘I Became Part of Its Rhythm’

Umair Bilal spent months successful Sehwan, Pakistan, trying to nonstop a documentary. Then helium gave up. “Every clip I tried to enforce that logic onto Sehwan, it felt similar I was moving against the spot alternatively than with it,” the Pakistani filmmaker tells Variety of his debut feature, “As Light arsenic Air,” which premieres successful […]