Roya Film House

After the United States and coalition troops announced they would withdraw their forces from Afghanistan in 2021, the subsequent collapse of the government and the rise of the Taliban have left the people of Afghanistan in fear of the future in a country that has suffered seemingly endless cycles of violence. Four extraordinary and brave women leaders, whose work in politics and social justice has already earned them international recognition, rise together, determined to fight for women’s rights under the new government.

Soraya, a low-level government official, is imprisoned when she defends a woman from village lords. Behind bars, she writes the Afghan President for help.

It has been 10 years since the international community and local entities’ initiated their efforts towards the elimination of violence against women, the women of Afghanistan are still suffering victims of violence and lawlessness. The Taliban, no longer in power, is present in the shadows, and their brutal practices and policies towards women, especially in the countryside, are still profoundly visible. “Violence Against Women – 10 Years On” explores how, and why, this recurrent atrocity against women in Afghanistan continues to rise despite government and international community efforts to implement the law on the elimination of violence and the establishment of a High Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women.

Ay Nabaat is a 17-year-old girl from the Turkmen ethnic minority in Afghanistan

Gul Afrooz is engaged to her lover Firooz, despite this she is forced to marry an old warlord, a Khan.The Khan sends her to Iran as a drug courier for an opium ring. The ring is busted and she has to avoid the police and the revenge of the Khan (nomsheep)

Bustling around a fiery oven, a woman baker explains her struggles and highlights the multitude of complicated roles women play in Afghan society.

Mehdi Salami and Benafsha Yaqobi are blind couple who try to help other disabled people. They have a different world full of problems and very vast for them; they talk about people and people talk about them; they help each other on the streets to buy their needs from the market... Another disabled person also present his experience and activities; the documentary provides statistics and figures about disabled persons in the country; religious and legal experts analyze the lives of disabled people; and at the end the documentary provides solutions to disabled families and people...

A glance on the women who live in a geographical restriction of Afghanistan and the cities who have thousands of stories on women. The film addresses those who tyrannize over women, and who misuse cultural issues and religion.

This documentary film follows a small band of military commandos, members of the Afghan army who fight their country's enemies during predominantly night missions. A story of war, love, life and death, it is an unprecedented look at these elite fighters, and the hopes and dreams they have rarely spoken of until now.

Afghanistan has one of the world’s worst ratings in terms of domestic violence. All of this stems out of a lack of family law in our judicial system. Those working on reform, work very hard to find solutions for this problem but face severe opposition by the conservatives. Meanwhile, the cries of women committing self-immolation and street-children in the dynamics of a society make one face with the stories of bitter realities and inspiring struggles.

Award winning short documentary that demonstrates women's problems in Afghanistan. The film consists of 3 parts: 1. The women who are self-immolating and the reasons of self-immolation. 2. Underage marriages. 3. Those sorts of women who are referring to attorney for solving their family problems.

A Girl listening to the radio from home, a Woman Walking at Her Workplace. The camera follows their steps in parallel, focuses on the mirror they look at, putting lipstick on. Inside the Court mistreated Women telling their stories. On television, the report of a terrorist attack, outside, in the city. Mrya Basher is the first woman in Afghanistan to have become a senior provincial investigator officer, a high-responsibility position woman are often considered incapable to carry. By actively supporting mistreated young women she puts her life in serious danger.

People who have lived in Afghanistan all their lives turning what others would see as nothing more than wastewater into a sea.

With the Cold War about to break out in Afghanistan, young, lifelong friends Suraya and Sima must question their life choices and moral principles when they get involved in opposite sides of the conflict.

A 14-years-old girl begs for money on the street with her mother. A guy about the same age gives them a coin every day he passes by, pushing his bicycle. Days are passing by, all the same, the call of the mosque scans time. One day the mother dies. The girl now begs alone for money and wears her mother's burka. The young guy passing by this time gives the girl a flower instead of a coin.