Beauty in Disgrace 

A beautiful debut by Nelofer Pazira about the shame of traditional values in women’s liberation.

August 25, 2010

ACT OF DISHONOUR
Director, Script: Nelofer Pazira
Starring: Nelofer Pazira, Marina Goldahari

IT’S amazing how much beauty can exist in the rough, deserted backyard of a stone-walled house, between the blind spots of a traditional post-Taleban village where impoverished lambs move more freely than women. This beauty exists in the lone figure of 15-year-old Mena, a bride and woman-to-be in red, sitting in comfortable relinquishment, watching t

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