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Salvar la cara
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7.0Every 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.
Cast
- Sarkar Abbas as Herself - Advocate High Court
- Mohammad Jawad as Himself - Plastic Surgeon
Themes
- biography
- pakistan
- oppression
- woman director
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- short film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- Pakistan
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- health care
- Director
- Daniel Junge
- Duration
- 40
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- savingfacefilm.com
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- publication date
- 2012-01-01
- title
- Saving Face
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- distributed by
- Fandango at Home
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Article · Español
Salvar la cara o Saving face es un documental pakistaní codirigido por y Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy y ganador del Oscar al mejor cortometraje en 2012. El documental muestra el trabajo del cirujano plástico doctor Muhammad Jawad, quien se ocupa de realizar las cirugías reconstructivas de mujeres sobrevivientes de ataques de ácido. Debido al machismo y las desigualdades estructurales de la sociedad pakistaní, estas mujeres se enfrentan a enormes dificultades para acceder al sistema judicial y lograr condena para sus agresores, cuyos delitos quedan impunes.
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