With This Breath I Fly

[Plays Oct. 22 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] Clementine Malpas and Sam French spent ten years making their controversial, powerful, eye-opening, educational, disturbing, gut-wrenching, 77-minute documentary that showcases the unbelievable story of two courageous, doggedly determined Afghan women, including Farida who was sentenced to 6 years in prison after leaving her controlling, abusive husband for another man and Gulnaz who was sentenced to 12 years of incarceration after refusing to marry her rapist uncle who impregnated her, who diligently worked with their attorneys to once again bring to light the appalling, draconian, one-sided, unfair Afghan judicial system and the Islamic law that victimize women unjustly accused of "moral" crimes in Afghanistan all over again.
|
|
|