Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is directing ‘Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret’, The film follows four transgenders in the city of Karachi on a journey of self discovery.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is co-directing ‘Saving Face’ with acclaimed director Daniel Junge. The film chronicles the life of a British Pakistani plastic surgeon who donates his time to heal victims of acid violence in Pakistan.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy investigates how the war on terror is creating a generation of child terrorists in her homeland – children prepared to kill both inside and outside Pakistan.

In the past five years more than four million Iraqis 20 per cent of the entire population have been driven from their homes as a result of the war and sectarian bloodshed.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy returns to Afghanistan to find out how life has changed for women in the five years since the invasion by America.

Eight years on from its bloody split from Indonesia, one of the world’s youngest democracies is being ravaged by widespread gang violence and disorder.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy travels across Saudi Arabia to explore why the Muslim religion’s holiest land treats half its population as second-class citizens.

About life after the earthquake that flattened mountain villages in Pakistan, India and Kashmir on October 8, 2005.

Filmed in February 2006, during the Filipino government’s official pro-life month, Sharmeen discovered a dangerous underground abortion industry.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy travels across her native country of Pakistan to gauge the reactions of ordinary citizens who feel that their president is selling out to the west.

Sharmeen Obaid boards this “peace train” in India and travels home to Pakistan to see how people are reacting to the cautious attempts to settle differences between the two countries.

A uniquely personal perspective to the disturbing rise of radical Islamic fundamentalism within Pakistan.


Terror’s Children is a personal journey of a Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid. The filmmaker brings to light the plight of eight children
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