Afghanistan Unveiled
(Afghanistan: 2003 52 mins. French with English subtitles)
Thursday September 11, 2008, 5:30pm & 7:30pm

Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban's repressive rule and recent U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghani women. None of the fourteen journalist trainees had ever traveled outside Kabul. Except for one, none had been able to study or pursue careers while the Taliban controlled their country. Leaving Kabul behind for the more rural regions of the country, the filmmakers present heartbreaking footage of Hazara women whose lives have been decimated by recent events. With little food and no water or electricity, these women have been left to live in caves and fend for themselves, abandoned in the wake of the U.S. invasion. While committed to revealing such tragedies to the world, the filmmakers also manage to find moving examples of hope for the future. A poetic journey of self-discovery, Afghanistan Unveiled is a revelatory and profound reminder of the independent media's power to bear witness and reveal truth.

Discussions to Follow Each Screening. Please join us.

Guest Speaker: Shakib Rajaieean, a Fulbright scholar from Afghanistan, is majoring in political science at the University of Montana. Shakib graduated from the Institute for Leadership Development in 2006 in Herat, Afghanistan, where for five years he worked as the Senior Political/Civil Affairs Assistant for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. Shakib has been an active participant of many international NGOs in Afghanistan such Doctors without Borders and International Assistance Mission.

Producer's Web Site: www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c628.shtml