Voice Of The Unknown Woman: Afghan Filmmaker Roya Sadat
March 2, 2020
5:27 pm
For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world’s worst places to be one.
One of the first female filmmakers to make her name after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, she has won plaudits at home and abroad for works such as “A Letter to the President”, and “Three Dots”, and “Playing the Taar”.
She has lived through the Soviet occupation — fleeing with her family for their lives at times — endured the brutality of civil war, and then the violent oppression of Taliban rule, where women existed only …
