Banaz: A Love Story | |
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Directed by | Deeyah Khan |
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Theme music composer | L. Subramaniam |
Country of origin | United Kingdom/ Norway |
Original language | English |
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Producer | Deeyah |
Cinematography | Jeremiah Chapman |
Running time | 70 minutes |
Original release | |
Release | 29 September 2012 |
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Banaz: A Love Story is a 2012 documentary film directed and produced by Deeyah Khan.[1] The film chronicles the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British-Iraqi woman of Kurdish origin killed in 2006 in South London on the orders of her family in what is euphemistically called honour killing.[2] The film received its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London September 2012.[3]