Sunday Nov 5, 2023
Afghan Women Behind the Wheel

Saturday Nov 18 at 7:30pm
“Hava, Maryam, Ayesha”

Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune St
New York, NY

Sahraa Karimi is a film director, scriptwriter and university lecturer from Afghanistan. She is the first and only woman in Afghani history to earn a doctorate in filmmaking and to head the Afghanistan Film Organization. Karimi was forced to leave Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, due to the fall of Kabul and the return of the Taliban to power. Her 30 short fiction and documentary films have received awards from film festivals all over the world. Karimi’s debut feature film “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha” was shot entirely in Kabul with Afghani actors and had its world premier at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.

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