Tragedy Tales of Afghan Women which is to be Story Movie

A Thousand Girls like Me highlights the need to make the ‘unknown’ cases known. 

Ariana News Agency-  woman in this country has a hundred owners. It’s always been like that. Fathers, brothers, uncles, neighbours. They all believe they have the right to speak on our behalf and make decisions for us. That’s why our stories are never heard but buried with us underground.” – Sahra Mani Mosawi, filmmaker.

But what if the stories of Afghan women were heard? What if they succeeded in fighting the cultural, familial and legal forces that strive to keep them silent? And what if the words they spoke were a demand for justice?
Twenty-three-year-old Khatera finds out when she goes on national television to accuse her father of physically and sexually abusing her.
For 13 years, he’d raped her, resulting in numerous pregnancies. Most of them had ended abruptly when he forced her to abort, but two were carried to term. Kehatera is determined to bring the father who raped her to justice even as family members threaten to kill her.

He took one of the babies into the desert, where he left it to die.

Khatera’s three-year-old daughter, Zainab, was spared that fate. But, once again pregnant by her father, she fears for the future of her daughter and unborn child if she cannot persuade the authorities to press charges against him.
It isn’t the first time she has tried. The television show is a desperate attempt that she knows could have severe consequences in a country where the judicial system often incriminates the very women seeking its protection.
But being prosecuted for “moral crimes” isn’t the only risk she faces in speaking out.
Khatera’s uncles believe she has brought shame upon the family and that the solution lies in her death and the death of her daughter.
In the award-winning A Thousand Girls like Me, Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani Mosawi follows Khatera as she lives in hiding, moving from house to house whenever she fears her identity might have been exposed or that her uncles might be closing in on her.
But, despite the fear, the danger and the uncertainty, she is determined to bring her father to justice, to protect herself and her children and to set an example for all other girls like her.