Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

sahdia This documentary shows the grim reality in its entirety, so much so that we even see wounds and scars. This is what the victims see and feel every day. This film helps fight the case against these laws which allow people to get away with the most heinous crimes and even feel proud about it. No remorse from the attackers. It's frustrating to know how common and similar these stories are and how often there is no justice. I used to hear them and read about them even when growing up, yet nothing changed for the better in all these years. Why?!The problem goes further than the areas of Pakistan where this is common. Many people who originate from these places, bring such heinous views and traditions to the countries where they build a new life. Some of my family members share them, some of our Pakistani family friends agree with them. I hope films like these will help bring an important change, because too many lives have been destroyed already.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" is a 39-minute documentary from last year written and directed by female Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. With this one here, she already won her second Oscar after "Saving Face", a documentary short film that centers around the mutilation of females in the Middle East. And in this one here, her newest project, the subject is once again the humiliation of and discrimination against females in the Middle East. This time, the subject is a young woman named Saba who almost died at the hands of her (seemingly) beloved ones. This film is about honor killings, and in particular about a woman who was really lucky to survive it and we find out why she still manages to forgive the people who want her dead. It is a touching subject for sure and an emotional movie at times, but I personally felt that it delivered nothing really new beyond the fact that everybody (with an open mind) knows about, namely how women in the Islamic world have hardly any rights, except the right to die when they don't strictly obey to what the men in their lives have in mind about them. It's a solid watch, but an Oscar may be a bit too much I guess. I still recommend checking it out. Oh yeah, and make sure you got subtitles unless you're fluent in Panjabi.

Riaz Balouch I am fond of watching movies but its all about entertainment; nothing for to know the reality of life , when I watch A girl in the river " I felt a pain in my heart and tears in my eyes because we had no idea of those people whom are living with us but not living with life!Its a great movie against gender discrimination in our tribal traditions and some how fake Islamic scholars.These all traditions are against the Qurran & Islam.In our society there are so many other customs and values to banned the women to show their natural abilities and talent in public working field. Now a days its little bit easy to face the aggression of right wing and credit goes to those powers whom stop the Talban thoughts and trying to make Pakistan a modern liberal country where every could be live without gender, religion, language, cast, status and racial discrimination. I want to see my country a beautiful and piece full place where we could enjoy art, film, games, music,religion values with beautiful family units.

MartinHafer This film is set in Pakistan and is about so-called 'honor killings'--when families murder their own daughters in order to save face with their neighbors. The particular subject of this film is a young lady named Saba. Saba married a man despite her family not giving her permission and her father and uncle dealt with it by shooting her and dumping her into the river. However, Saba's case is unusual because she actually survived the gunshot to her face and the film follows the case through the Pakistani court and to its ultimate resolution...or lack of resolution. The film is hellaciously depressing but fortunately the gunshot wound isn't as horrible to see post-surgically as you might imagine and Saba is rather inspiring because of her inner strength. It's also an amazing film because everyone talks so openly about what occurred and the father seems incredibly proud of his actions and by the end of the film he is elated that he maintained his sense of honor by trying to murder his daughter. By the way, if you are curious, the filmmakers and folks they interviewed were careful to reiterate that these honor killings are not in any way approved of in the Koran but are more cultural than religious in nature.UPDATE: This film did take the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.