Stone Silence - Trailer
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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2012 · News & Politics
It's a story of crime and punishment, primitive justice, human culture at its most medieval. It's a masterful documentary, full of pathos and character, which through sensitive crafting finds beauty in tragedy. For downloads and more information: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=59077 Amina is stoned to death for infidelity. Before the dust has settled her community, those guilty of her brutal killing, is already closing in on itself. A wall of silence now surrounds the village of Spingule, tucked away in a remote valley of Northern Afghanistan. Caught in the house of a man who was not her husband, Amina's sentence was to be stoned to death, and the village wasted no time in seeing that it happened. Through interviews with Amina's family and with her lover, this powerful and moving documentary pierces through the veil of shame and secrecy that now surrounds Amina's death.
