Direction: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Saving Face

2011 · Documentary · 40 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Junge · Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot Every year hundreds of people (mostly women) are attacked with acid in Pakistan. SAVING FACE follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who...

7.4

43 votes

7.4

43 votes

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

2015 · Documentary · 40 min. · Pakistan

Direction Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot More than a 1000 women are killed in the name of 'honor' in Pakistan every year. A Girl in the River: The price of forgiveness follows the story of a...

Max

7.2

99 votes

7.2

99 votes

Student Athlete

2018 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Trish Dalton · Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot Every year billions of dollars are generated off the backs of an unpaid labor force: college athletes. Student Athlete unveils the exploitative world of high-revenue college sports through the stories...

Max

6.6

24 votes

6.6

24 votes

Sitara: Let Girls Dream (S)

2019 · Movie · 15 min. · Pakistan

Direction Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot Takes the audience on a journey through the old city of Lahore where a fourteen-year old girl, Pari, dreams of becoming a pilot. Her story is told through the perspective...

6.4

214 votes

6.4

214 votes

Ms. Marvel (TV Miniseries)

2022 · Series · 48 min. · United States

Direction Bisha K. Ali · Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy · Adil El Arbi · Bilall Fallah

Cast Iman Vellani · Matt Lintz · Laurel Marsden · Rish Shah

Plot Kamala Khan, a Jersey City teenager and a megafan of the Avengers, feels a bit out of place in the institute and sometimes even at home. She is determined to...

4.9

3K votes

4.9

3K votes

3 Bahadur

2015 · Movie · min. · Pakistan

Direction Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot 3 Bahadur is the story of three extraordinary children who rise from the most unlikeliest of places and save their town from the evils plague it. Equipped with courage and...

Not rated

Not rated

3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam

2016 · Movie · 107 min. · Pakistan

Direction Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Cast Qadim Sahm

Plot 3 children now have a task of defeating babe balm who is rising again.

Not rated

Not rated

Untitled Star Wars Film

2027 · Movie · min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

Song of Lahore

2015 · Documentary · 82 min. · Pakistan

Direction Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy · Andy Schocken

Cast Rafiq Ahmed · Saleem Khan · Nijat Ali · Riaz Hussain

Plot Song of Lahore follows several Pakistani musicians, and asks if there is still room for them in a society roiled by conflict.

Not rated

Not rated

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

2015 · Documentary · 95 min. · United States

Direction Geeta Gandbhir · Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Plot 'A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers' follows a unit of one hundred and sixty women who, between June 2013 and July 2014, travel far from their families, friends and...

Not rated

Not rated