No Burqas Behind Bars

Frihet Bakom Galler/ No Burqas Behind Bars

Audience Award Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France

Thursday - 09/04/2014
6:00 PM - Filmrauschpalast 
Documentary / Frihet Bakom Galler / Sweden / 2013 / Language: Dari / Subtitles: English / 77 Min.
Director: Nima Sarvestani
Writer: Steven Seidenberg
Producer: Maryam Ebrahimi
Cinematographer: Rozette Ghadery
Editor: Amaran Thevarajah, Jesper Osmund
Sound: Hamid Hamoun, Torsten Rundqvist
Music: Khosro Soltani, Mehrdad Hoveida

Sima, Nadjibe and Sara are three of 40 women, that have been locked up in the afghan women’s prison Tachar. They all have committed ‘moral crimes’ in terms of afghan society: While Sime and Nadjibe are imprisoned for running away from their violent husbands, Sara has been captured eloping with the love of her life and her family has threatened to kill her once she leaves the prison.
Somehow the prison walls seem to provide more shelter and freedom for the women than life on the outside. Everyday life inside this parallel universe seems surprisingly light at first glance, but as one gets gradually closer to the protagonists, the more obvious social ills and predominant arbitrariness become.


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