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Past Event: Sahraa Karimi

Sahraa Karimi

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Screening of Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019)

Three pregnant women are living in Kabul. From different social backgrounds, each faces a big challenge and must solve her problem by herself for the first time.

Followed by Q&A with the director

About the Speaker

Sahraa Karimi (Pashto: صحرا كريمي‎; born 20 May 1985) is an Afghan film director and the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organisation (Afghan Film)] She has directed three documentary films, including the award-winning “Afghan Women Behind the Wheel” (2009). and one feature fiction film ” Hava, Maryam, Ayesha ” which has the world premier at 76th Venice Film Festival.