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Playing the Taar (Tar wa Zakhmah) | 45mins
Director: Roya Sadat | Producer: Roya Sadat
Focus Years: 2009 | Country: Afghanistan
Subject Tags: afghanistan, asia, culture, gender, human rights, middle east
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
Ay Nabaat is a 17-year-old girl from the Turkmen ethnic minority in Afghanistan. She has been weaving carpets at her home since her childhood. Her entire life is interlocked to carpet strings and colors. Her father is engaged in an old and bloody conflict with another ethnic group which has lasted for years. In order to end this hostility, he decides to marry Ay Nabaat to a man who already has three wives. After marriage, Ay Nabaat gets pregnant, but her new husband takes another revenge and claims that her child is illegitimate. Ay Nabaat's father throws her out of her home, and she is forced to give birth to her child in an abandoned and devastated house....

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