Produced by Michelle Gagnon Producer Michelle Gagnon | Country United Kingdom Narrated by Terence McKenna | |
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Release date 5 March 2006 (2006-03-05) Initial release 5 March 2006 (United Kingdom) People also search for The Voyage of the St. Louis, The Secret History of 9/11, Black October, Life & Times of Pope John Paul II Cast Shazia Khalid, Mukhtār Mā'ī, Terence McKenna | ||
Land, Gold and Women is a documentary about the conditions of typical women in rural Pakistan. It chronicles the traditional use of ritual gang rape as a method of social control. Central to the film are the stories of Mukhtar Mai, and Dr. Shazia Khalid. The documentary was first broadcast on 5 March 2006.
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Mai and Khalid
Mukhtar was an illiterate woman from a poor farming family. A more highly placed family perceived a slight by her younger brother, who was believed to have been interested in a daughter of a more high-class family. A tribal council ordered Mukhtar to report to the other family, to apologize for her brother. When she arrived, she was taken captive, and gang-raped for several days.
Shazia Khalid was working as a medical doctor in an isolated region of Pakistan. When she was raped, she found that she could not get officials to initiate an inquiry.
Reception
The documentary was awarded a gold medal at the New York Film Festival in 2007.