Banaz A Love Story - Screening and Conversation

Filmscreening and conversation hosted by the Fritt Ord Foundation and Fuuse, Oslo on Thursday, 24 January 2013.

Participants:

Director and Producer Deeyah
Detective Superintendent Caroline Goode
Campaigner Diana Nammi
Author and Professor of Social Antropology Unni Wikan.

Writer, Lecturer and Broadcaster Kenan Malik (moderator)

Banaz A Love Story is a documentary film chronicling an act of overwhelming horror -- the brutal honour killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British woman in suburban London in 2006, killed and "disappeared" by her own family, with the agreement and help of a large section of the Kurdish community, because she tried to choose a life for herself. It was a case which shocked the entire world and received enormous international press coverage; but until now, the voice of Banaz herself has never been heard. The film tells Banaz's story, in her own words, for the first time -- and tells the story of the extraordinary police team who refused to give up, and finally brought her killers to justice.

Full information: http://www.fritt-ord.no/no/hjem/mer/b...

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