
In Shackles – Film Screening
In Shackles, a short documentary film by UH student, journalist and filmmaker, Haider Rifaat.
The official screening event will take place on Friday, January 24 at 1PM in Hamilton Library, room 306.
FILM SUMMARY:
In Shackles details the story of a 34-year-old Pakistani woman, Shamim, who lives in a deeply entrenched patriarchal village located in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Her story is weaved in different chapters and each chapter focuses on an underlying issue, including forced marriage and sexual violence that are connected to more complex societal problems facing Pakistanis overall, including religious hypocrisy, impact of family conditioning on children and culture of silence surrounding violence.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Haider Rifaat is a 29-year-old Pakistani journalist, actor and a talk show host currently in his second year of PhD studies in the Political Science program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In a journalism career spanning more than a decade, Haider Rifaat has interviewed many notable public figures in the areas of entertainment, culture, politics, journalism and academia. His expert analysis and feature stories have appeared in several international media outlets, including South China Morning Post, Wonderland Magazine, Khaleej Times and Arabian Moda Magazine. In Shackles is his first short documentary film.