Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
Direction
Obaid-Chinoy's access is extraordinary—survivors trust the lens.
Editing
40 minutes feels both mercifully brief and devastatingly complete.
Director
Daniel Junge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This won the 2012 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, making co-director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award.
The Acid Survivors Foundation Pakistan, featured in the film, successfully campaigned for the 2011 Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Act—shown in the documentary's final moments.
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