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Pakistani journalist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s another documentary, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been nominated in the Best Documentary – Short subject category for the 88th Academy Awards.

Congrats to our Documentary Short Subject nominees #Oscars #OscarNoms pic.twitter.com/i1ex9vJmtL

— The Academy (@TheAcademy) January 14, 2025

#Pakistan we are going to the#oscars

— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) January 14, 2025

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is a story of an 18 year old girl who is a survivor of an honour killing attempt.

“I am delighted that A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness has been nominated for an Academy Award. This film and its message is incredibly important to me. Honor killings affect hundreds of women in Pakistan every year and I hope that the film and its message will catalyze awareness and action around this crisis, igniting change for women and help put an end to this tragic abuse of human rights” Sharmeen said.

She further added:

“This is an opportunity for Pakistan to acknowledge that it has a problem and to address it with urgency because there is no honor in an honor killing. We will send out a strong message that this heinous crime is not a part our culture or religion.”

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also congratulated Sharmeen for the award nomination.

Delighted that the PM is going to help with the legislation on honor killing! #pakistan #Oscars2016 https://t.co/5aTEseAUt5

— Sharmeen Obaid (@sharmeenochinoy) January 14, 2025

Previously, Sharmeen’s documentary ‘Saving Face’ had won 84th Annual Academy Awards in 2012.