Synopsis
After the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, Raha and Marwa, two young Afghan women, record voice notes to tell the story of their daily lives. Raha has chosen to stay in Kabul; she is confronted with the violence of the regime. Marwa has left and finds herself locked up in a refugee camp in Abu Dhabi, where she waits to be welcomed somewhere in the world. The film is based on the hundreds of voice notes they exchanged with journalist Caroline Gillet in the months that followed.
Festivals
THESSALONIKI 2023
CPH:DOX 2023
KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL 2023
Director's Biography
Caroline Gillet was born in Brussels and has been producing documentary series for France Inter for the past fifteen years. Her podcast “Inside Kabul”, which gathers the vocal notes sent by two young Afghan women since the fall of Kabul, has just received the ‘Contemporary writing’ mention at the Longueurs d’ondes Prize. For the past year, Caroline Gillet has also been collecting the stories of Ukrainians confronted with war for the column ‘Notes vocales d’Ukraine’ broadcast in the program ‘Un jour dans le monde’ on France Inter.
Graduate from the Orleans Institute of Visual Arts in 1991, Denis Walgenwitz has worked as an assistant director, notably for Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” (2007). He participated in the development and production of feature films such as “Moi, moche et méchant” (2009), “Le Congrès” (2013) by Ari Folman, “La Tortue Rouge” (2016) by Michael Dudok de Wit, or “Ma Vie de Courgette” (2015) by Claude Barras. He has also directed several short films, such as “La Mort, Père et fils” (2017), co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, or “Un Amour de télés” (2007).
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