| Land, Gold and Women | |
| Producer: | Michelle Gagnon |
| Narrator: | Terence McKenna |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
Land, Gold and Women is a documentary about the conditions of typical women in rural Pakistan.[1] [2] It chronicles the traditional use of ritual gang rape as a method of social control. Central to the film are the stories of Mukhtar Mai, and Dr. Shazia Khalid.[1] The documentary was first broadcast on 5 March 2006.
Mukhtar was an illiterate woman from a poor farming family.[1] A more highly placed family perceived a slight by her younger brother, who was believed to have been interested in a daughter of a more high-class family. A tribal council ordered Mukhtar to report to the other family, to apologize for her brother. When she arrived, she was taken captive, and gang-raped for several days.
Shazia Khalid was working as a medical doctor in an isolated region of Pakistan. When she was raped, she found that she could not get officials to initiate an inquiry.[1]
The documentary was awarded a gold medal at the New York Film Festival in 2007.[3]