FILMS D'ART

They Are Killing the Horse

The story of a young woman suffering under the weight of repression.

Completed in the aftermath of the 1977 military takeover, this was the first time issues of violence and suppression were addressed on celluloid. This was Gazdar’s first international win, at Finland’s Tempere Film Festival, in the Grand Prix category.

Follow the plight of a young woman suffering from depression due to the social and sexual repression all around her. Noori‘s family takes her to various shrines and pirs in Sindh for a cure which results in her condition becoming even worse.