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Outlawed in Pakistan: Sundance Premiere

Filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann reflect on the premiere of their film "Outlawed in Pakistan" at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary follows the story of a Pakistani teenager, who accuses four men from her village of gang-raping her and then faces a deeply flawed criminal-justice system, when she takes her case to the Pakistani courts.

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