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In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.

Drama 2023 13 mins Not rated

Overview

In Spring 2022, the Taliban implemented a series of new decrees in Afghanistan that banned music from being played in public. Girls were sent home from school on their first day back, and subsequently ordered to wear the Chadari, the infamous blue full body veil that became iconic during the first Taliban regime in the late nineties. Laili, a 21-year-old educated Afghan woman, must now go to her local Chadari seller to purchase her first full body veil.

As she wanders through the shop, she is drawn to the sounds of music coming from the back and discovers a young man, a disillusioned Taliban member, secretly playing the Rabab. In her search for a veil that fits, Laili must confront the new future she faces and the limitations it imposes on her, all while glimpsing the world beyond the mesh of her Chadari.

Director

Elham Ehsas

Featuring

Afsaneh Dehrouyeh , Elham Ehsas and Ahmad Jan Mano

Genres

Drama

Certificate

Not rated

Country

United Kingdom

Language

Dari with English subtitles

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