Director : Michaela Pavlátová
Script : Ivan Arsenjev, Yaël, Giovanna Lévy d’après le roman Frišta de Petra Procházková
Editing : Evženie Brabcová
Music : Evgueni et Sacha Galperine
Sound : Edward Björner, Tormod Ringnes
Voices : Zuzana Stivínová, Shamla Maqsoodi, Eliska Balzerová, Hynek Cermák, Berenika Kohoutová
Production : Sacrebleu Productions, Ron Dyens, Negativ S.R.O., Petr Oukropec, BFilm, Ltd., Peter Badac
Distributor :
Diaphana Distribution
155 rue du faubourg Saint Antoine
75 011 Paris
tél : 01 53 46 66 66
[email protected]
www.diaphana.fr
Year : 2021
Screening : 2023
DCP, Color, 80 mn, OV czech, english SUBFR
Kaboul, Afghanistan, 2001. Herra, a young woman of Czech origin, decides to give everything up for love, to follow in the footsteps of the man who will become her husband, Nazir. She then witnesses and joins in the upheavals that her new Afghan family live from day to day. Through the eyes of a European woman, against a background of cultural and generational differences, she sees at the same time her daily life thrown upside down by the arrival of Maad, an out-of-the-ordinary orphan, who will become her son.
“In my opinion, Petra Procházková’s novel is an extraordinary, deeply humane document, in which the author, inspired by her own story, has succeeded in transposing, with a point of view suffused with incredible empathy, the efforts of Afghan women to live a free life in post-Taliban Afghanistan. I condemn, as does Petra, the violence inflicted on women hidden behind the walls of their homes, as well as all violations of their rights. This initial situation of Afghan women, described in the novel, makes me uneasy, as a European woman, and seems unacceptable and reprehensible.” Petra Procházková