The 16-minute documentary highlights the reasons behind honour killings in Pakistan. PHOTO: PUBLICITY
Apart from her project The Honour Deception, 80 other films from around the world were showcased at the festival, held on October 12
The 16-minute documentary that has been made in collaboration with Action Aid Pakistan highlights the laws of Qisas and Diyat (retribution and blood money), which are the core reasons behind honour killings.
She earlier told The Express Tribune, “I feel honoured that this film is being screened, amongst a host of others.”
Gazdar’s previous documentary called The Silent Voices, which focused on home-based women workers, won the Best Film award at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival.
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Aisha Gazdar’s like Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will come under fire and be called vicious names because the men & some women in our society scream obscenities at these talented women who want our society ill spotlighted worked on and ended. Till these archaic practices are abolished and women trended with dignity documentaries...films and whatever medium available should be used to spotlight the issues.
@WhataDbag: its not saying your heart, you just write the sentence,I hate again because I don't like your double standards.
@FAZ: Why to have a documentary when there are so many news channels praising the "peace" efforts taken by Hafiz Saeed and his followers???
Documentary highlights the laws of Qisas and Diyat (retribution and blood money)..........I guess this short film spreads message of keeping honor in Islam......relatives can kill a girl for having an affair, then parents of the girl can forgive the killers. Do people kill their sons for "honor" too when they do it out of marriage? Is there no honor gene on the Y Chromosome?
@Javed: looks whose saying ... some one from a nation whose 40% urban population lives in slums..... cool.... its amazing that whatever u say ultimately backfires at u... :) btw honour killings in pakistan is a deep routed norm.... it can never go.....reminds of some rural north india too....punjab ,haryana,UP,rajasthan.....sometimes bihar, MP too...
Whats the point of submitting movies to the 'Slum Film Festival' which nobody knows?
@Mr. Singh: And what about Indian army and its strategic assets? Remember 1984!
@Hafiz: Well we don't hate you! Because we are not haters.
@Hafiz: Hafiz bhaisaab don't be so rude. It's not the people who create animosity but Pak Army and its strategic assets which has created such animosity. Good people so Pak should always be welcomed.
again pakistanis in india???pakistanis plz don't enter into india. we hate you too much.
Congrat
Sharmeen Obaid should do a documentary on Lashkare Taibba or jamatud dawa. It will break records of any short/long documentary in India
It is great to see Pakistani cinema making a comeback. Pakistan has too much talent to not succeed in the world of cinema.
Ali Khan