Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy express that her latest Academy Award-nominated documentary will help bring tougher laws against honour killings in the country.
According to local media report, “People need to realize that it is a very serious crime,” Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy told in an interview in Karachi. “It’s not something that is part of our religion or culture. This is something that should be treated as pre-meditated murder and people should go to jail for it”. More than 500 men and women died in honour killings in 2015, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
The film, “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, which follows the story of a young woman who survived attempted murder by her father and uncle after marrying a man without their approval, was nominated for an Oscar in January, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to pledge to take a firm stand against the ‘evil’ practice, local media reported.
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has already won an Oscar in the same category for “Saving Face”, a film about acid attacks in the country.
Chinoy’s film “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, tells the story of 19-year-old Saba from Punjab.
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