When director Sahra Karimi fled her native Afghanistan last year to escape the Taliban's return to power, Ukraine offered her temporary asylum.. Watching the current tragedy unfold, she spoke to the Japanese media NHK WORLD about the difficulties both countries are facing and condemned the Kremlin’s aggressive policy towards Kyiv..

" I leave my house, I leave my car, I leave my money, I leave everything I have,” she shared last summer after she had to flee the country where the Islamists returned. And in response to the ongoing large-scale invasion of Ukraine, she noted:.

" I fully understand everything that is happening now in Ukraine. This is a war for freedom, for the right to be free. We must fight so that the people of the world can live in freedom and peace,” Karimi said..

Recall that Sahra Karimi is not only a filmmaker from a rather biased country in relation to the artistic role of a woman, she is also the only woman in the history of Afghanistan who had a doctorate in film and film production..

Among her works, films that tell the story of Afghan women who find themselves in unusual circumstances stand out..

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha centers on three pregnant women from Kabul going through difficult times.

Inspired by the 1990s cult drama Night on Earth, Afghan Women Behind the Whee tells the story of three Afghan women who decide to practice driving in a precarious and prejudiced city.

Parlika depicts the country's transition from a totalitarian theocracy to democracy as a mature woman struggles to conquer the political arena of a highly traditionalist Islamic country..

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With the rise of the Taliban causing a large demographic exodus from the country, 36-year-old Sahra Karimi has repeatedly said that this will crush the film industry and women's rights..

Recall that the Taliban abolished the Ministry of Women's Affairs and created an agency responsible for the work of the "