Writing Hawa

Réalisation
Najiba NOORI, Rasul NOORI

In Afghanistan, Hawa was married to a man when she was still a child. 40 years later, as her husband sinks into Alzheimer's disease, Hawa is eager to start an independent life and learn to read and write. But the return of the Taliban to power jeopardizes the realization of her dream.

Réalisé par
Najiba NOORI, Rasul NOORI
Narrateur
Najiba NOORI
Photographie
Najiba NOORI & Rasul NOORI
Montage
Afsaneh SALARI
Musique
Afshin AZIZI
Production
Tag Film Sas
Christian POPP (Tag Film Sas)
Co-Production
Renko DOUZE (Een van de jongens)
Van Nunen HASSE (Een van de jongens)
Christian POPP (Tag Film Sas)
Ventes
First Hand Films GmbH

Réalisé par

Najiba NOORI

NAJIBA NOORI (author, director) was born in 1995 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She began working for media organisations as a volunteer when she was just 15. She has participated in several workshops for photography and filmmaking in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has made reports and photo stories for various organisations and agencies, including the AFP, Huffington Post, MSF, FMIC, NRC and UN Women in Afghanistan. She participated at the Close-Up program 2020-2021 and at IDFA Academy 2022. She joined AFP as a video journalist in 2019. In 2021 she was obliged to leave her country when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and lives in France. “Writing Hawa” is her first feature-length documentary.

Rasul NOORI

RASUL NOORI (co-director) was born in 1994 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan and graduated in journalism in Kabul. He has made several short videos for NRC, GIZ, and FMIC in Afghanistan. He was one of the cinematographers of the short film “Hoof” with the American Company Hungry Man in Bamiyan.

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