Synopsis
When Khatera, a 23-year-old Afghan woman, forces her father to stand trial after a lifetime of sexual abuse, she risks her family, freedom, and personal safety to expose the faulty judicial system that incriminates the very women who seek protection. In this awe-inspiring story of one woman’s battle to make her voice heard, the young Afghani director demonstrates the power of action over fear while she embarks on a mission to set a positive example for her daughter and other girls like her.
Director: Sahra Mosawi-Mani
Producers: Les Films du Tambour de Soie and Afghanistan Doc House
Language: Farsi with Arabic and English subtitles
Country: Afghanistan
Duration: 76 min
2018
Sahra Mosawi-Mani is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, university lecturer, and the founder of Afghanistan Documentary House. As of 2001, she has been working on using media as a catalyst for good, and later pursued her master’s in Documentary filmmaking from the University of the Arts London. In her documentaries, Sahra focuses on her own country Afghanistan, highlighting on the lack of democracy and equality.Sahra Mosawi-Mani is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, Lecturer at University and the founder of Afghanistan Documentary House.
She started working in media from 2001 with the goal of using media as a catalyst for good. Since, got her Master in Documentary filmmaking from University of the Arts London she has focuses on creating documentaries centered around her own country Afghanistan, that lack democracy and equality.