Oscars: The UK Selects Feminist Western Urdu Film 'My Pure Land' for Foreign-Language Category

Oscars: The UK Selects Feminist Western Urdu Film ‘My Pure Land’ for Foreign-Language Category

September 21, 2017

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The United Kingdom has chosen My Pure Land, an Urdu-language feature film being described as a ‘feminist western’, as its submission for Oscar consideration for the upcoming 2018 ceremony in the foreign-language film category. It is directed by first timer Sarmad Masud and it marks the first time that Britain has submitted an Urdu-language film to contend for an Academy Award.

The UK has only twice been nominated and has yet to win in the foreign-language category. My Pure Land could be the film that changes all of that. The feminist western drama is based on a true story of a mother and her daughters who survive a siege and protect their ancestral land in rural Pakistan against the invasion of 200 bandits. It has been received well by critics and currently holds 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The Academy will announce the nominees for best foreign-language film on January 23rd 2018 whilst the ceremony takes places on March 4th 2018.

You can watch the trailer right here:

My Pure Land is currently in cinemas at London, Manchester, Bristol and Nottingham in the UK. Be on the look-out for a review of the movie right here at Geeks of Color.

Source: THR

One response to “Oscars: The UK Selects Feminist Western Urdu Film ‘My Pure Land’ for Foreign-Language Category”

‘My Pure Land’ Depicts How One Woman Resists 200 Bandits and Police Corruption: Spoiler-Free Review – WE ARE GEEKS OF COLOR

September 25, 2017 at 2:03 am

[…] Based on a true story, My Pure Land takes us to an environment we are rarely exposed to on the big screen, a small village in Pakistan with dusty roads and grassy fields. We are introduced to two sisters, Nazo and Saeda, who are armed and ready to defend their home from their uncle Mehrban. He demands ownership of their land because the land he inherited was barren. Nazo’s initial resistance ends up with two of Mehrban’s men being killed. Troubled and enraged, Mehrban calls in the local for-hire ragtag militia. Nazo’s only hope is a local police force that can be bought like cattle, and what her father has taught her. […]

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