Swara
A Bridge over Troubled Water


Swara examines and comments on the Pakhtun practice of giving minor girls in marriage as reparation for serious crimes such as murder committed by their fathers, brother, or uncles.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Samar Minallah is trained as an anthropologist and has an M Phil from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has worked on two documentaries on Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. She is a freelance journalist and works with the Aurat Foundation.

SCREENINGS
Sat, Mar 13th, 3pm
Mission Cultural Ctr
 
Shown with
 
Co-presented by

IOPWE

Jazbah


Pakistan, 2003
40 min
DV Color
Pushtu
Subtitled

Direction
Samar Minallah

Camera
Tariq Peerzada

Editing
Tariq Peerzada

Script
Samar Minallah

Animation
Haseeb Ajmal

Contact
Samar Minallah
Aurat Foundation
samarminallah
@yahoo.com


 


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