Afghan Women

Afghan Women (1974)

January 1st, 19740h 17min

Documentary
0%

Overview

The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a woman's role in a rural Afghan community. Filmed in the Balkh Province, an area inhabited by Tajik and other Central Asian peoples. The town of Aq Kupruk is approximately 320 miles northwest of Kabul. The theme of the film focuses on women. The film and accompanying instructor notes examine the economic, political, religious, and educational status of women, their legal and customary rights, and the degree of change in their actual and perceived roles.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Die Frauen der Terrormiliz

Die Frauen der Terrormiliz


Released on: 2019-06-25
Documentary

Nanny, cook or sex slave. For a long time, the mistaken belief that the women in the terrorist organ...

Backroom Troubles

Backroom Troubles


Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary

Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic...

Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom

Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom


Released on: 2023-06-03
Documentary

Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serv...

Lighthouse

Lighthouse


Released on: 2024-04-27
Documentary

After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, widowed women struggled to receive aid due to their social s...

Commander Arian

Commander Arian


Released on: 2018-04-29
Documentary

On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an...

The Women

The Women


Released on: 1966-04-27
Documentary

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after t...

The Indomitable

The Indomitable


Released on: 2021-08-26
Documentary

The story of women's struggle against sexual discrimination and for inclusion in the democratic proc...

75e, elles se souviennent

75e, elles se souviennent


Released on: 2015-04-27
Documentary

Behind the Looking Glass

Behind the Looking Glass


Released on: 2024-08-30
Documentary, Animation

Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transiti...

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget


Released on: 2013-07-04
Documentary

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted an...

We Weren't Given Anything for Free

We Weren't Given Anything for Free


Released on: 2014-01-20
Documentary, History

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a part...

Quand les pouvoirs s'emmêlent

Quand les pouvoirs s'emmêlent


Released on: 2018-10-05
Documentary

Fragments

Fragments


Released on: 2023-07-26
Documentary

Women’s voices rise to deliver testimonies of victims of sexual violence. By reconstructing a story ...

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution


Released on: 2023-09-19
Documentary, History

On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wear...

Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible


Released on: 2020-06-18
Documentary

As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a grou...

Still Working 9 to 5

Still Working 9 to 5


Released on: 2022-03-13
Documentary

Examines the 40-year evolution of gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace since the 19...

They Fight: Our Breasts, Our Weapons

They Fight: Our Breasts, Our Weapons


Released on: 2013-03-05
Documentary

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights f...

You Have Struck a Rock!

You Have Struck a Rock!


Released on: 1981-01-01
Documentary

You Have Struck A Rock! commemorates the special contribution of South African women to the success ...

9to5: The Story of a Movement

9to5: The Story of a Movement


Released on: 2020-06-19
Documentary

In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long ...

Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World

Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World


Released on: 2017-02-15
Documentary, History

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilizatio...