Tuesday, March 1, 2016

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness...




Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face, made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award. This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her in the face and threw her in a river because she had married without her family’s consent. Because she had tilted her head at the last minute, Saba survived the shooting and managed to get to a petrol station for help. But although her father and uncle were subsequently arrested, Saba came under pressure to forgive them, which under Pakistani law means they would escape further punishment.
Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/14/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-interview-saba-qaiser-honour-killing-documentary-girl-river-oscar-nomination

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And they wonder why people call Muslims backwards? I'm convinced that this kind of cultural oppression, plus the horrendous acts that go along with it, are satanic inspirations that these men fall into. Sadly, the kind of thinking that brings this on has been ingrained in them over centuries and centuries...