Cinema Jazireh

Directed by Gözde Kural

With Fereshteh Hosseini, Mazlum Sümer, Ali Karimi, Hamid Karimi and Meysam Damanzeh

Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban. After surviving her family’s massacre, Leila has just one goal in life: to find her son Omid. But in a country where being a woman means being less than nothing, her chances are desperately slim, and so she chooses an extreme and dangerous solution. She radically changes her identity and sets out on a path where even the slightest hesitation can mean death.