Also the regime was so oppressive that there was no room for creativity under the Taliban, so Afghan literature in recent years is mainly a diaspora literature. Obviously, [living under the Taliban] ...

"Director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and her niece Zahra in their aspirations to emancipate themselves from patriarchal traditions," says a synopsis of the doc that is world premiering at IDFA ...

Filmed over five years, Writing Hawa tells the story of three ... and forced marriages have plagued and victimized countless Afghan women for decades,” said Noori. “The film shows Afghanistan ...