Directy by Sayed Masood Eslami and Masooma Ibrahimi, Afghanistan, 2022, 73 min
Four girls living in one home together.
Nadia is a young girl from a village. Because her brother murdered a young man, she is forced to marry the dead man's brother and flees to Kabul. Mursal lives separately from her husband and tries to fight for the custerect of her son. Her ex-husband, however, goes to the U.S. and takes their common son with him. The young girl Zinat is subjected to her stepfather's attempts to rape her. She manages to escape him and flees to Kabul to emigrate to Europe. Latifa is a girl who moved to Kabul for her studies. She is also in search of her father, who left the family at an early age. To raise money to support herself and her mother, she drops out of university. To get the money, she ends up stealing from other girls and is confronted with the consequences of her actions.
Masooma Ibrahimi was born in 1983 in Afghanistan. She has made two short films, a long documentary and a feature film by name Kabul Girls. Her short film Dar charkha/ In circle was screened in Locarno Film Festival 2017 and other films have been screened and awarded in many national and international film festivals. Masooma holds a bachelor's degree from Kabul University and MBA from Islamic Azad University. She has been a writer of many short films, TV documentaries and Radio’s series and drama and worked as costume assistant with German team in the Inbetweens world feature film. In addition, she has written some books for kids and teenagers. Beside filmmaking she has been board member of AWCCI to advocate for Afghan businesswomen. By support of the Artist Protection Fund, Masooma relocated to Sweden for two years and then she immigrated to the United States, where she continues to pursue her passion.
Masood Eslami was born in 1984 in Afghanistan. He was trained in filmmaking in Iran and attended in (AFA) Asian film Academy in South Korea 2014. He participated in Goethe-Institute Film Workshop in Pakistan. Masood was a filmmaking trainer (in Kabul- Mazar e Sharif- Qandahar- Herat- Bamiyan) in the British Council project for two years. He has made the short films Swap, Home is not Safe, SMS, Maze and Trauma and the documentary Taqi the Afghan Rocker. His films were awarded and screened in many national and international film festivals. He has made the TV series Soldiers and Roya in Afghanistan and has worked with international filmmaking teams as AD and production manager in Inbetweens Worlds, a German feature film, and Cinema Pamir, aSwedish documentary. His first feature film by the name Kabul Girls he has developed together with director Masooma Ibrahimi in 2020.
The film will be followed by a discussion (via zoom) with the directors Sayed Masood Eslami and Masooma Ibrahimi.
