"This documentary is a form of solidarity for Afghan women and girls, and it's also a form of resistance against the Taliban, which is trying to make Afghan women invisible and erase them," Yousafzai told me in a Zoom interview.
"If I wanted to make this film at this moment, it wouldn't be possible," Mani says. At the start of this stretch of the Taliban's rule, women couldn't work or attend school; now, they can't leave the house without a chaperone, Mani says.
"All she wanted to do was be a dentist, but she could no longer do that. That's a moment that I can personally connect to," says Yousafzai, who became a public figure after she was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education at age 15.
Lawrence recalls a moment in Bread and Roses when Sharifa Movahidzedeh, who finds it oppressive to go from a career as a government employee to life as a housewife, escapes to a roof to listen to a song she loves, "just to find some peace."
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