Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life and to be literate. However, with the return of the Taliban to power, her dreams, along with those of her daughter and granddaughter, are shattered as they face new struggles.
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This is the story of three generations of Hazara women in Afghanistan, told through director Najiba Noori's portrait of her mother, Hawa. Following tradition, Hawa's father married her off at age 13 to a man 30 years her senior instead of sending her to school. By 2019, at 52, she had endured a life marked by hardship, six children, and a husband suffering from dementia. Finally choosing to live for herself, Hawa learns to read and write and launched a textile business in Kabul, reinventing traditional Hazara embroidery with modern designs. But with the imminent withdrawal of U.S. forces and the Taliban's return to power in 2021, Najiba Noori is forced into exile in France, Hawa's business collapsed, and her family's dreams were shattered. While the film exposes the Taliban's horrific violation of women's rights, it also offers a deeply moving portrait of Hawa's resilience in the face of brutal oppression. (CHUN Jinsu)
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Najiba NOORI
