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Born in Karachi, Sabiha Sumar studied Filmmaking and Political Science at Sarah Lawrence College in New York from –83 and then read History and Political Thought at Cambridge University.
Independent filmmaker, Sabiha Sumar, has earned much acclaim for her films which deal with political and social issues such as the effects of religious fundamentalism on society and especially on women. Her first feature film, ‘Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani)’ has played in film festivals around the world. It is a story of a young man who has fallen under the influence of religious fundamentalists and his mother’s struggle to save him from it. Silent Waters won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Sabiha’s first documentary, ‘Who Will Cast the First Stone,’ about three women in prison in Pakistan under Islamic law won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival in
Recently, I had the chance to see two of Sabiha’s documentary films, ‘Don’t Ask Why’ and ‘ For a Place Under the Heavens.’ Each film deals with Pakistani women
Sabiha Sumar was born in Karachi in She studied filmmaking and political science at the Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and international relations at the University of Cambridge. In , she founded Vidhi Films. Sumar has always conceived her work as a means of social criticism, particularly to make audiences aware about the issues of women. In this respect, we mention Who Will Cast the First Stone (), focusing on the working class women's protest against Islamic laws introduced in Pakistan in , and Suicide Warriors (), a documentary about guerrilla-fighting women in their struggle for a separate homeland for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. Khamosh Pani/Silent Waters (), her first feature movie, was presented and awarded at numerous film festivals around the world.
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For a Place Under the Heavens
Acclaimed director Sabiha Sumar, recent winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for her feature Silent Waters, offers an insightful perspective on Pakistan in this finely crafted personal film. Beginning with the creation of Pakistan in , Sumar traces the relationship of Islam to the state in an effort to understand how women are coping with and surviving the increasing religiosity of civil and political life in her country. Raised in a more secular time, she struggles to comprehend how religious schools have expanded at once unthinkable rates and presents chilling footage of a mother encouraging her toddler to be a martyr when he grows up. Mixing political analysis with interviews with activist colleagues, noted Islamic scholars and Pakistani women who have chosen to embrace fundamentalism, Sumar’s provocative questions dramatically capture the tension between liberal and fundamentalist forces that are shaping life in contemporary Pakistan. “Less an ethnography than a philosophical and historical inquiry into the meaning of gender within Islam, it provides a witt
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