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Production
2023

Hawa

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund Grantee

  • headshot of Hawa director, Najiba Noori wearing a brown jacket
    Najiba Noori, Director
  • Christian Popp, Producer
A female person, the main protagonist of the film, Hawa, sitting on the stairs of he appartement. She is looking away from the camera, watching a green garden. Hawa is wearing a colourful scarf covering her head, a red jacket and a grey dress.

About the Project

40 YEARS after her arranged marriage as a child, Hawa is eager to finally begin an independent life and to be literate. However, with the return of the Taliban to power her dreams, and those of her daughter and grand-daughter are shattered.

Project Team

    headshot of Hawa director, Najiba Noori wearing a brown jacket

    Najiba Noori

    NAJIBA NOORI was born in 1995 in Iran. She began working for media organizations as a volunteer when she was just 15. She has participated in several workshops for photography and filmmaking in Kabul, Afghanistan. She has made reports and photo stories for various organizations and agencies, including the AFP, Huffington Post, MSF, FMIC, NRC, and UN Women in Afghanistan. She participated in the Close-Up program 2020-2021 and IDFA Academy 2022. She joined AFP as a video journalist in 2019. In 2021, she left her country when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan and lives in France. Hawa is her first feature-length documentary.

    Christian Popp

    Producer on Hawa documentary.