A documentary film from Afghanistan has been selected in YAGAMATA International Documentary Film Festival.
MOHTARAMA is a joined project documentary by Malek Shafi’i and Diana Saqeb, tow Afghanistani documentary filmmakers based in Kabul.
19 short and feature documentaries has been selected to competing for the "New Asian Currents" Yamagata Documentary Film Festival.
In 2009, the Afghan Parliament approved the Shia Family Law, which was then signed by President Karzai. The law severely restricted women’s freedom, making it illegal for them to exit the house without their husband’s consent or resisting to their husband’s sexual demands.
The Afghan women who were against this law, gathered and protested in front of Afghanistan’s biggest religious school where the law was written with support from Sheikh Asif Mohsini (an Islamic scholar and the founder of the school). The protests turned violent as the students of the school began humiliating the women protestors by beating, spitting, and labeling them as “Western followers”.
This was one of the first major movements by women for their rights. This seemed to be the right time to visit other provinces to learn about the concerns and challenges of the educated Afghan women and their hopes and expectations from women movements.
Muhtarama is mainly about the educated Afghan women and their common concerns that ranges from lack of political and social rights to domestic violence and troubled married lives to street harassment.
Muhtarama is a joint project undertaken by Diana Saqeb and Malek Shafi’i. In this movie, Malek Shafi’i follows Diana Saqeb, who is also one of the organizers of the protests against the Shia Law, and highlights the concerns and worries of like-minded women.
21st YAGAMATA international documentary film festival will held on 10 to 17 October 2031 in Tokyo JAPAN.
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