Ayenda
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- Directed by: Marie Margolius
- Released: 2024 (educational)
- Year of Production: 2023
Running Time: 40 min
Language: English
Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions
Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies, Women's Studies
***Digital Site Licenses exclusively available via Kanopy***
For a generation of Afghan women, education and opportunities were a given. Growing up post-Taliban meant they enjoyed a freedom their mothers never did. But that all changed in August 2021, when the Taliban regained power in Kabul. One group of women saw what was coming and made the difficult decision to leave their home and their families and, in the dark of night, escape for the security of a better life anywhere but there. Through the harrowing first person stories of the young women who make up the Afghan Women’s Soccer team, we experience the immediate day to day and personal impact of two decades of American foreign policy decisions (and failures).
NBC Original, Official Selection and Winner for Best Directing at DOC NYC 2023
About the filmmaker
Marie Margolius is a documentary film producer based in Brooklyn. After beginning her career at ESPN, Marie joined Words + Pictures in 2021, a nonfiction production studio in Soho, where she oversees production at the company.
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