Afghanistan Unveiled (2004)
Directed by Brigitte Brault
Sub-Genres - Biography, Gender Issues, Media Studies, Military & War, Social Issues |
Run Time - 56 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
Young female Afghan videojournalists travel around their shattered land, seeking out other women to tell of life and death under the Taliban. Not surprisingly, much of what they hear is grim.A gaunt woman who lives in a cave in Bamyan says the Taliban killed her husband and sons. Another woman describes how they mutilated her son's dead body. And another has a forced-marriage horror story.
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Afghanistan, bombing, hardships, invasion, media, repression, self-discovery, sexual-oppression, Taliban, women's-issues
