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“One of the most upsetting documentaries you will ever see, but also vitally important. Banaz’s family wanted to erase all memories of her – this devastating film makes sure that they didn’t succeed. A deeply affecting film. A story told very powerfully and with the very painful addition of footage of Banaz herself, essentially predicting her own murder. -The Times.

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Bruce Bawer skriver i dag om filmen i Documentary Shines a Light on Honor Killing i hvilken “the always appalling Unni Wikan” spiller en vis rolle.

International Emmy Award 2013 – Best Film, Current Affairs, Peabody Award Winner 2013, British Royal Television Society Awards 2013 – Best Documentary, Current Affairs (nomination)

This is a documentary film chronicling an act of overwhelming horror – the honour killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British woman in suburban London in 2006, killed and “disappeared” by her own family, with the agreement and help of a large section of the Kurdish community, because she tried to choose a life for herself.

It was a case which shocked the entire world and received enormous international press coverage; but until now, the voice of Banaz herself has never been heard.

As the result of four painstaking years gaining the trust and co-operation of the extraordinary police officers who solved the case, the film contains heart-breaking footage of Banaz herself, detailing the horrors she was facing and accurately predicting her own brutal murder. The footage, which has never before been seen and has been obtained by the filmmakers for the first time, displays the warmth, beauty and courage of Banaz.

Despite the horror, what emerges is a story of love…

Of Banaz, an ordinary young British teenager, whose relationship with Rahmat put her life in danger. It was her video messages from beyond the grave which convicted her father and uncle of the murder she feared would happen.

Of Bekhal, a young woman of incredible spirit and bravery, whose love for her murdered sister gave her the strength to testify against her own family and community – bringing justice to Banaz but consigning her to a life forever lived in hiding.

Of Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode, the senior Scotland Yard detective, who says she came to love Banaz beyond the grave. It was Caroline’s dedication and passion which drove her on, finding her body against all the odds, laying her to rest, and relentlessly pursuing her killers, even to Iraq.

And Deeyah, international music producer and activist turned filmmaker, who has herself been subject to honour related abuse and threat. It was Deeyah’s love for the story, for Banaz, for Bekhal and for Caroline, and for raising awareness for the issue of honour killing, which has driven her to spend four years making this harrowing and deeply emotional film, running out of funding long ago, but forming an intimate bond with all the key players, which plays out on screen in scenes of astonishingly confessional testimony.

Banaz is a symbol of horror and hope in the fight to overcome oppression and outdated, abominable cultural practices, practices which claim the lives of thousands of other women like Banaz every year.

But above all, the film is an act of remembrance, an act of recovery of Banaz, one human being. After her family tried so brutally to erase her from the face of the earth, for the first time, Banaz’s voice is finally being heard.

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Nostradamus_i_norr
Nostradamus_i_norr
10 years ago

Prof. Unni Wikan deltar i en diskussion som är relaterad till dokumentären och som finns länkad i BB:s artikel. Hon pĂĄstĂĄr lögnaktigt att islam har lite med ”hedersmord” att skaffa. Att de hör intimt ihop behöver man inte vara professor i socialantropologi för att förstĂĄ. En handbok i islamisk lag, certifierad som en pĂĄlitlig vägledning till sunnitisk ortodoxi vid Al-Azharuniversitetet i Kairo, den mest respekterade auktoriteten i Sunniislam, definierar att “vedergällning är obligatorisk mot den som dödar en människa avsiktligt och utan rätt.” Men “en far eller mor (eller deras fäder eller mödrar) kan inte utsättas för vedergällning för att… Read more »

Britta Due Andersen
Britta Due Andersen
10 years ago

Tak for at du bragte denne film, den er lang, men meget interessant.
Endnu et godt eksempel på, at de gode derover i England, er de virkelig onde, når de tillader familiesammenføring i en så ung alder med en analfabet fra 3.verden.

Victor
Victor
10 years ago

Har set og læst om Deeyah. Hun er et spændende bekendtskab – og hun har nosser….

Hold øje med hende.

Morani ya Simba
Morani ya Simba
10 years ago

Giv det 10 ĂĄr og sĂĄ er der mainstream politikere, sikkert begyndende i UK eller Frankrig, der taler om at bringe dødsstraffen tilbage. Ikke mindst for “æres” drab. Jeg selv er ogsĂĄ ved at være moden til den diskussion.

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