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45365 after the rape
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For nine months, directors (and brothers) Turner and Bill Ross focused
THE NETHERLANDS
In Pakistan in 2002, by order of a tribal council, Mukhtaran Mai was
Directors: Turner Ross, Bill Ross their lenses on the people of their hometown, Sidney, Ohio. Named Director: Catherine Ulmer López gang raped to avenge an affair her twelve-year-old brother had sup-
Producers: Bill Ross, Turner Ross for Sidney’s zip code, the resulting documentary zigzags across town Producer: Carmen Cobos
posedly had with a woman from another, more powerful clan. Lured
Cinematographers: Bill Ross,
boundaries and generational lines to encompass a cast of inhabitants
associate Producer: Judith Vreriks
to a gathering where the dispute was to be ceremonially resolved,
Turner Ross who are characters in their own right. At the Shelby County Fair, Elvis Jr.
Cinematographer: Pedro Jimenez
Mai was instead seized by the fourteen men who would carry out the
Editor: Bill Ross sings his heart out in a downpour, while a middle-aged mom and her
Editor: Danniel Danniel
“sentence.”
MS: A to Z
Sound Editor: Lawrence Everson
son bicker over their shared pot-smoking habit. Before the big game,
Cast:
MS: A to Z
Mukhtaran Mai, Sidra Nazar
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2009 / color / 93 min.
the Yellow Jackets – the local high-school football team – recite The But with the support of a powerful local imam, Mai defied custom and
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2008 / color / 75 min.
Lord’s Prayer. As a hub for townsmen, the barber shop thrives on buzz took her case to court, where six of her attackers were convicted. Upon
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cuts and gossip. Radio station WMVR’s disk jockey – who narrates the receiving $9,000 in compensation from the Pakistani government, she
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film in matter-of-fact sound bites – says it all: Life here is “simply the
CaThErinE uLMEr LÓPEz
used the money to found a school for girls and a shelter for battered
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way it should be.” Throughout her career in television and women. In the process, she became a worldwide symbol in the fight for
With a background in visual art,
film across Europe, Catherine Ulmer
human rights.
Turner Ross has worked in the art
López has focused on international
department for such studios as
Brilliantly crafted as a series of small moments, this film amounts to
politics. Her films have screened at the
Cinemotion, 20th Century Fox, something much bigger – a portrait of the trials, tribulations, and cel-
“Honor punishments” against women for the alleged crimes of their
International Documentary Film Festival
Disney, and the FX Channel. Turner
ebrations of a small-town America that anyone anywhere can relate to.
Amsterdam and the Santiago Film
relatives are common in remote areas of Pakistan, as is societal indif-
grew up with his brother Bill in
Trains come and go. A judge running as an incumbent knocks on doors
Festival, among other places.
ference to the sexual abuse of women. Those who endure such crimes
Sidney, Ohio, the location and
and sweats it out on election night. A nameless adolescent experiences are often expected to commit suicide – and many do. Documentarian
subject of 45365.
romantic angst with an unseen boyfriend and declares via an overheard
Filmography
Catherine Ulmer López (We Were All on That Train; My Career in the
cell phone conversation that she, like countless dreamy girls before her,
My Career in the Church (2006)
Church) captures the casual brutality of tribal law in service of a much
We Were All on That Train (2004)
BiLL roSS
wants her “senior year to be special.” Two crusty old farmers debate
Comrades! (2004)
more uplifting narrative of ending cycles of violence through education.
Bill Ross’s documentary, fiction,
the merits of bat guano. Impossibly innocent children race piglets, drive
Desert (2003)
Before Mai’s school was established, girls in her village of Meerwala
and multimedia shorts have been
bumper cars, and ride the Ferris wheel at the fair. Life in 8mm (2003) learned only the household tasks they would need to get married. Now,
featured at various film festivals, Life Without You (2003) they learn not only mathematics and English but history and human
including Cannes and the Seattle
A sense of nostalgia naturally emanates from 45365 as a cinematic rights – and experience the power to dream of changing the future.
Film Festival. 45365 is his first
tribute to home. But so does a sense of the honesty and integrity of its
feature-length film.
clear-eyed chroniclers, who lift this little town up and out of the Ohio
Valley, locating it firmly on the big blue globe.
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