The short film, produced by Nighat Shah, seeks to investigate why there were 500 suicides in Chitral between 2007 and 2016.
Pakistan s serene mountains hide within them ghastly tales of individual struggle and loss and Nighat Shah, an investor turned filmmaker from Chitral, wants to talk about the rising and deeply concerning suicides in her home region.
On May 10, it was reported that three people decided to end their lives in Chitral in a single day. Two young women, aged 19 and 20, threw themselves into the Chitral River. In a separate incident, a 29-year-old-man stabbed himself to death. Pakistan is home to approximately 200 million people, and despite having over 100 medical colleges in the country, there are only about 500 licensed psychiatrists and very few psychologists. That breaks down to one psychiatrist per 400,000 people, and most of those psychiatrists are in urban areas. How many of them do you think are in the mountain areas? Shah asked durin