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Afghanistan Cinema Club (BASA) News |
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Up to the Parliament is the name of a documentary which is made about three independent women's lives and their political campaigns to enter the new Afghan parliament in three different provinces of Afghanistan.
Sohaila Alkozai lives in the capital, Kabul she is the owner of a building firm, which builds schools in Afghanistan. When she comes back from Germany she starts her struggle against the warlords.
Fozya Wazakzai lives in Balkh province in the north of Afghanistan with her children. She works as a lawyer in Independent Human Rights Commission, which helps and advices women. She is the first woman lawyer in north of country.
Zarmina Zare lives in the remote Faryab province, which is under the control of warlords, her husband was killed by Taliban 9 years earlier, but she is trying to build a decent life for herself and for her children. She is campaigning in different parts of the province but the people are heavily influenced by warlords' propaganda. In the end all of the three candidates don't win their campaign for election to the new parliament.
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