Irish-Pakistani production ‘Tiger Tiger’ selected for Cannes’ short-film corner

KARACHI: This year’s short-film corner of the Cannes Film Festival will feature an Irish-Pakistani production “Tiger Tiger” for world premier.

The Karachi-based Wormhole Productions — initially founded as a theatre company but later expanded into producing films — carried out the post-production for this fictional drama short feature.

“The film was shot before we joined in but it wasn’t completed. So we stepped up to help finish the post-production and distribute it,” Nabhan Karim, chief executive of Wormhole Productions, told Geo News.

Nabhan grew up in Karachi and, after completing his A Levels from The Lyceum School, went to the United States to study Film and Television from Indiana University Bloomington. He is one of the producers for the film.

Staged and shot in Ireland, “Tiger Tiger” is a surreal mystery-drama 13-min short film, and is the first as a director by Donnagh FitzPatrick, an Irish national.

It is set in a rural pub in Meath in which a young, unnamed protagonist staggers in the middle of the night to get his bartender and trusted friend, Rickman, to help him dispose of a body. But things take a dramatic turn when Rickman claims to have never met the young man before.

The film stars Stephen Cromwell, Gerry Grimes and John Fitzmaurice.

The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 11 to May 22, 2016 in Cannes, France.

(Photo: Tiger Tiger Facebook page)