Prison sisters
directed by Nima Sarvestani, Sweden 2016, 90'
Nima Sarvestani finished his loud documentary No Burqas Behind Bars, which was awarded the Emmy, Prix Europa, and the WATCH DOCS Award, in a dramatic moment.
Sarah comes out of an Afghan prison, where she could at least feel safe, to an almost certain death, dictated by the law of honor of her abandoned husband's family. So how will Sarah and her prison sister, the warrior Nadibeh, regain their freedom?
It is not at all easy to predict the answer, and it is even more difficult to find it in the tangle of traces on Afghan streets. Sara will ask for asylum in Sweden, using Nima's and his wife’s support, with whom she lives. Najibeh is said to have been stoned in her hometown.
This is only the beginning of the third part of the Sargentani Afghan trilogy – full of surprising twists in the shocking story of cultural shock, the burden of enslavement and the burden of freedom.
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