Motivation of the Director:
I choose to deal with a
delicate but rather a difficult and untouched issue such as femicide
and what has been known for many year as” Honor Killing”.
I refer to the crimes that take place against Palestinian women
or girls as femicide. These acts should be considered crimes that
create a perpetual fear in women or girls of being killed under the
justification of “honor”.
Therefore, I thought this
documentary should be derived from the voices of the victims, those who
live under the threat of being killed and those who had lost
their loved ones under the justification of bringing dishonor to
the family.
There are several
justifications for producing this documentary. First, being a
Palestinian women and independent filmmaker born and raised in
Palestine and always cared for covering women sensitive issues . In
addition to being brought up in a conservative society that
concentrated on honor and related that family or male honor is achieved
through the manliness of the man and the sexual purity of the woman. An
Arab or Palestinian woman is always constructed simultaneously as
honorable or dishonorable female where she is surrounded by what is
allowed or not and it seems that everything is shame for girls and
therefore for women.
It isn’t a rebellion
against the Arab Palestinian culture but it is an attempt to modify a
wrongful act that has been practiced against women since childhood.
My derive is to produce this
documentary from my passion for the lost voices of women’s pain
and suffering which deserves to be highlighted. More focus is
needed to turn such acceptable crimes to become unacceptable and
forbidden and to preclude the occurrence of such crimes.