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A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (dir. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, 2015)

This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 26, 2016. There is a bittersweet bit of irony at play in the fact that Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy-award winning short documentary film A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is on the schedule at LIFF2016. I watched it the same…

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Song of Lahore (dir. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 2015)

This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 30, 2016. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary feature Song of Lahore is about honour of a different kind than that of her award-winning A Girl in the River. Lahore has been a major South Asian cultural centre for well over a thousand years.…

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