{"id":57703,"date":"2023-08-21T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/aug\/21\/this-stained-dawn-review-pakistani-feminists-courageous-fight-for-their-rights"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T06:00:10","slug":"this-stained-dawn-review-pakistani-feminists-courageous-fight-for-their-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57703","title":{"rendered":"This Stained Dawn review \u2013 Pakistani feminists\u2019 courageous fight for their rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anam Abbas\u2019s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against patriarchal violence<\/p>\n<p>Chronicling the weeks leading up to \u2013 and the day of \u2013 the 2020 edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/mar\/08\/women-take-to-the-streets-of-pakistan-to-rewrite-their-place-in-society-international-womens-day\">\u201caurat march\u201d<\/a>, a multi-city women\u2019s demonstration in Pakistan, Anam Abbas\u2019s stirring documentary follows the courageous activists who dare to make their voices heard. Bookended by colourful animated sequences depicting the solidarity of Pakistani women in the face of patriarchal violence, This Stained Dawn also examines the nitty gritty of community organising with unvarnished honesty.<\/p>\n<p>Operating under intense scrutiny and threats from rightwing groups as well as their own families, the women behind the aurat march fight prejudice with the joy of activism. Staying close to its resilient subjects, the documentary captures how the simplest act of disobedience can turn into a sense of revolutionary sisterhood. Juxtaposed against a flood of TV panel discussions and political debates where men freely spout misogynistic dogma, the activists\u2019 efforts feel like a safe haven amid a storm of hate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/aug\/21\/this-stained-dawn-review-pakistani-feminists-courageous-fight-for-their-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anam Abbas\u2019s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against patriarchal violenceChronicling the weeks leading up to \u2013 and the day of \u2013 the 2020 edition of the \u201caurat march\u201d, a multi-city women\u2019s demonstr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,71,707,237,69,60,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-culture","category-documentary-films","category-feminism","category-film","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57704,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57703\/revisions\/57704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}