The actress Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel prizewinner Malala Yousafzai are among the producers of this "extraordinarily courageous documentary" about the lives of a trio of Afghan women in the period after the Taliban's return to power, said Matthew Bond in The Mail on Sunday.
Shot in Kabul and stitched together by the Afghan director Sahra Mani, the film shows them standing up to the fundamentalists "who want to remove their right to education and work, and return them to a veiled, subservient existence" – and the price they pay for this. There's no narration, and the events depicted are sometimes hard to follow, but this is a film "as powerful as it is appalling".
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