Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey

Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey is my experience looking for democracy and women in Pakistan. The film has two parallel narratives that influence each other and symbiotically grow. The background to the narratives is General Pervez Musharraf’s coup in 1999. My identity as a Pakistani woman governs the perspective of this film, the issues raised, the questions asked and the responses encountered. General Musharraf claims to democratize society. How will the army bring democracy in Pakistan? This question spurs the film.