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WRITING HAWA

• Director: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori
• FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, QATAR, AFGHANISTAN / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 84’ / Persian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Najiba Noori, Afsaneh Salari
• Director of Photography: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori
• Editing: Afsaneh Salari
• Music: Afshin Azizi
• Cast: Anlatan Narrator: Najiba Noori
• Producer: Christian Popp, Hasse van Nunen, Renko Douze
• Production Co.: Tag Film
• World Sales: First Hand Films

2024 IDFA FIPRESCI Prize

Forty years after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa finally begins an independent life ––determined to learn to read and write, and start her own business with the support of her daughter Najiba. However, with the return of the Taliban to power when the US troops withdraw from Kabul in August 2021, her dreams, along with those of her daughter and granddaughter, are shattered. Now a refugee in exile, Najiba helps her mother Hawa continue to fight for her dreams from afar. Documentarist Najiba Noori offers not only a loving and intimate portrait of Hawa, but also reveals the position of women, persecution, discrimination in an oppressive patriarchal structure as war, violence, lack of access to education persists.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.