Documentary film
With
Mahenaz Mahmoud
Marvi Mazhar
Mohamad Hanif
Seema Malik
Chand Zingara
Jadoo
Voice
Zeerak Ahmed
Camera and Edit
Schokofeh Kamiz
Colorgrading
Jorge Piquer Rodriguez
Sounddesign
Jochen Jezussek
Music
Nearest Gas Station
Jeremie Mortier
Aiden Backer
Producer
Berlinstan
Germany 2019
©Schokofeh Kamiz
With
Mahenaz Mahmoud
Marvi Mazhar
Mohamad Hanif
Seema Malik
Chand Zingara
Jadoo
Voice
Zeerak Ahmed
Camera and Edit
Schokofeh Kamiz
Colorgrading
Jorge Piquer Rodriguez
Sounddesign
Jochen Jezussek
Music
Nearest Gas Station
Jeremie Mortier
Aiden Backer
Producer
Berlinstan
Germany 2019
©Schokofeh Kamiz
“Fear is just a line in your head. You decide on which side you stay.” Sabeen Mahmud
Karachi, Pakistan. 24 April 2015.
A car stops at a red light. Inside are two women: Sabeen and her mother Mahenaz. Two men on a motorcycle stop and open fire. Sabeen dies on the spot; her mother is wounded but survives.
The evening that she was killed, Sabeen Mahmud, founder and director of the well-known Karachi institution T2F, had hosted a discussion on the unexplained and ongoing disappearances of over 20,000 activists and civilians in the country.
This event was originally supposed to take place in the most famous university in Lahore. However, at the last minute, after massive pressure from the state, the commitment for the premises was withdrawn.
Sabeen, too, had received ominous warnings from unknown visitors and was advised by concerned friends to cancel this event, which others had refused to host. But Sabeen had gone ahead undaunted: "Someone's got to do this!"
In the wake of the killing, the director follows Sabeen’s mother and friends in an attempt not just to record their accounts and memories of her, but also to create a portrait of a woman she never had the chance to meet.
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Karachi, Pakistan. 24 April 2015.
A car stops at a red light. Inside are two women: Sabeen and her mother Mahenaz. Two men on a motorcycle stop and open fire. Sabeen dies on the spot; her mother is wounded but survives.
The evening that she was killed, Sabeen Mahmud, founder and director of the well-known Karachi institution T2F, had hosted a discussion on the unexplained and ongoing disappearances of over 20,000 activists and civilians in the country.
This event was originally supposed to take place in the most famous university in Lahore. However, at the last minute, after massive pressure from the state, the commitment for the premises was withdrawn.
Sabeen, too, had received ominous warnings from unknown visitors and was advised by concerned friends to cancel this event, which others had refused to host. But Sabeen had gone ahead undaunted: "Someone's got to do this!"
In the wake of the killing, the director follows Sabeen’s mother and friends in an attempt not just to record their accounts and memories of her, but also to create a portrait of a woman she never had the chance to meet.
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