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Honour Me

2020 British film

Honour Me
Directed by	Alex Tweddle
Written by	Sameem Ali & Alex Tweddle
Produced by	Alex Tweddle
Starring	Sameem Ali
Cinematography	James Buck
Edited by	Nick McCahearty
Music by	Moritz Schmittat
Distributed by	The UK Film Council & Screen East (Worldwide)
Release date	October 2020 (2020-10)
Running time	15 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Honour Me is a 2020 British documentary film produced and directed by Alex Tweddle.

Abandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children's home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldn't wait to start her new life with them. Instead, she returned to a dirty house where she was subjected to endless chores. Her mother began to beat her and her unhappiness drove her to self-harm. So Sameem was excited when she boarded a plane with her mother to visit Pakistan for the first time. It was only after they arrived in her family's village that she realised she wasn't there on holiday. Aged just thirteen, Sameem was forced to marry a complete stranger.

When pregnant, two months later, she was made to return to the UK where she suffered further abuse fro

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Sameem Ali

​I spent the first seven years of my life in a children's home in England, where I was brought up on English values, went to church every Sunday, received pocket money every week, went to school and played with my friends. Everything that is ‘normal' for an English child. And then, much to my delight my parents retrieved me.

Within a day, I found myself thrown into an abusive family and culture I didn't understand. People spoke to me in a foreign language. I cleaned the house, cooked food with which I was unfamiliar, barely had time for school and studied the Quran in a language I couldn't read.

By the age of nine, I felt trapped lonely and abandoned. Shortly after I turned thirteen my mother unexpectedly offered me a reward for all my hard work: a holiday to Pakistan. I couldn't wait to visit my families and visit such a faraway place. The colours, the smells, the sounds of a different culture excited my imagination. Until my mother forced me to marry a complete stranger, twice my age, who did things to me I was too young and too naïve to understand. Repeated suicide attempts failed and I soon realised my only hope of escape was to get pregnant which meant I could go home. Alone.

Back in the UK I face a life of loneliness. Even if I had the opportunity to socia