40 minutes that'll wreck you and rebuild you. Oscar-winning doc about acid attack survivors fighting back.
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
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