SRFF: This Stained Dawn + Director Q&A

'This Stained Dawn' follows a tight-knit community of young women in Karachi who are changing the face of their city and its culture through their sometimes quiet, sometimes raging resistance.

The film sees Karachi’s feminists organise a woman’s march, coming up against Pakistan’s state, media and radical religious right. Filmmaker, Anam Abbas, follows the organisers of the march as they negotiate a deeply surveilled, paranoia-inducing, and often physically violent space in the hopes of spurring a revolution. A philosophical work, This Stained Dawn is not just about the Aurat March, but about the act of political organising itself.

Language: Urdu, English subtitles