My Sin
Pakistan: Filmmaking for Social Change
Screened with: My Sin, Red Burqa (Burqa a ye Qermez), The Sacred Goats
13:00 Wednesday 1 April 2009 at RSA
The box office has now closed for this film.
Screened with: My Sin, Red Burqa (Burqa a ye Qermez), The Sacred Goats
13:00 Wednesday 1 April 2009 at RSA
Plus post-film discussion: with tbc
Tickets: £28/23 (students)The box office has now closed for this film.
In July 2006, Roshan, along with 1,300 other women, walked out of the prison in which she’d been incarcerated for the last five years on a charge of ‘zina’ or adultery.
After thirty years of women struggling to get the law changed – and a final television campaign against it – the Islamic Hudood laws concerning adultery and rape in Pakistan were eventually repealed.
Director: Aliya Salahuddin
Producer: Aliya Salahuddin / Goldsmiths College
Cinematographer: Sameer Kasim / Tasawar-ul-Karim Baig / Aliya Salahuddin
Music: Vasco Hexel
Country: Pakistan
Length: 28 minutes
A moving observation of the impact of some of Zia ul-Haq’s oppressive legislation on Pakistani society long after he left the scene. As you rightly stated in the film Aliya, Roshan’s children are ‘conscious of Pakistani society’ and thus reject their mother…