Bhutto has Canadian Premiere at Hot Docs

BHUTTO is directed by Duane Baughman and Johnny O’Hara and produced by Duane Baughman, Mark Siegel, and Arleen Sorkin. The film casts an unblinking lens on the first woman ever elected to lead a Muslim state and uncovers the back story of the world’s most strategically important country – Pakistan – the Muslim world’s sole nuclear power, and the epicenter of the international War on Terror.

As beloved by the people of her native Pakistan as she was reviled by the nation’s military establishment and male-dominated ruling class, Benazir Bhutto remains a symbolic metaphor for the fight between terrorism and moderation that is being played out on the world stage today. Benazir remains a polarizing force in the Muslim world even two years after her death from a suicide bomber’s attack on December 27, 2007. Hers was a turbulent three-decade run through the storm of Pakistani politics during which Bhutto enjoyed unprecedented outpourings of love and hate, triumph and tragedy, devotion by the people of Pakistan and rejection by the forces that most feared her

Source: http://www.bhuttothefilm.com

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