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The Eclipse (Grohon Kaal)
 

Title: The Eclipse
Director: Shaheen Akhtar and
Shameem Akhtar
Length: 40 minutes
Language: English sub-title
System: Pal
Year: 1994


Description:
The story line features the incidents of fatwas issued by village Imams or village leaders that instigated violence against women. Resistance from the women's movements to these disparate incidents is related within a political social context of religious orthodoxy/customary practice as well as to its challenge from the movement for women's rights.

 

 
 
Source: Ain O Salish Kendro, October 2003
 

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