written and directed by Krzysztof Kopczyński director of photography Jacek Petrycki, Hanna Polak
Awards:
- Docudays UA Human Rights Documentary Days, International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine - Special Award of the Jury (kwiecień 2008)
- Miradas-Doc International Film Festival of Documentary Cinema, Guia de Isora 2008 - Award for Best Directing Debut
- Chicago International Documentary Festival - Festival's Council Award "Sky is the Limit" (April 2007)
- International Documentary Film and Animation Festival in Leipzig, Germany - Ecumenical Jury Award (November 2007)
In 2005 a woman suspected of adultery was killed in the village of Spingul in northern Afghanistan. According to varying accounts, the 25-year-old Amina was stoned to death, strangled, died of a heart attack or committed suicide...
Different versions of the events overlap and contradict one another and the witnesses' conspiracy of silence seems never-ending. The authors show a world which is dangerous and incomprehensible for a Westerner, a world governed by Muslim rules. Human life and freedom are not as important there as the specially understood justice and honour.
Translated by Monika Miziniak | Edited by Patricia Koza
