Pakistan’s Official Submission for Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards®
Winner - Sonoma International Film Festival - Best World Feature
Winner - Lux Style Awards - Best Actress, Saleha Aref
Winner - Créteil International Women's Film Festival - Audience Award Best Feature Film (Meilleur Long Metràge Fiction)

“Dukhtar grabs you from the outset and never lets go”
“a gorgeous, suspenseful cinematic achievement”
- LA Times

“a road journey to end all road journeys” - Huffington Post
 
“groundbreaking”
“unlike anything done by a director from this part of the world”
- Indiewire
 
“Nathaniel proves her mettle in a national industry where distaff directors are rare” - Variety
 
 “a great against-all-odds adventure”
- The Hollywood Reporter
 
“never changes from dream to nightmare.
Instead, it inhabits a heightened, brilliantly colorful version of what lies between; call it reality.”
- Village Voice, Critics’ Pick

“its principal merit is the quiet authority of Ms. Mumtaz, who combines a mother’s passionate concern with glimmers of an awakening consciousness” - The New York Times
 
"riveting and edifying" - People Magazine (Pick of the Week)