Winner
Academy Award
Best Documentary Short Subject (2013)
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Saving Face
Directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Daniel Junge
2012•40 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Topic
- Justice
- Mood
- Uplifting
- Featured in
- Activist Cinema
Synopsis
A journey to heal. A fight for justice.
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.
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Footnote
- First
First Pakistani to win an Academy Award
Main Cast
SASarkar AbbasHerself - Advocate High Court
MJMohammad JawadHimself - Plastic Surgeon
