Zolykha's Secret (2006)

Directed by

Horace Shansab

Genre

drama film

Country

Afghanistan

Runtime

2h 15m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Afghan girl with psychic powers sees ghosts of the past. Her older siblings struggle to build a better future while her sister faces an arranged marriage to a cruel militant. When the family protests, tragedy forces them to flee to the city with help from a Taliban member.

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What happens

Zolykha's Secret or Raz-e-Zolykha is a 2006 Afghan film directed by Horace Shansab. It was one of the first feature films produced in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Zolykha is the youngest girl in her family. She is vivacious and curious, and exhibits special psychic powers of extrasensory perception of past events and people whose ghosts haunt their home. Amena and Zalmai are her older siblings, who, in their efforts to decipher the meaning of past tragedies and tribulations (both natural and man-made), convince themselves that a positive future is feasible. However, the eldest daughter of the family questions her destiny, as she had been promised in youth to a man who has since become a cruel and vicious militant. Her father realizes the injustice awaiting his daughter and then protests and fights for his daughter's honour. However, events take a tragic turn. This forces the siblings to flee the countryside to the city with the help of a Taliban convert, who against his strict orders, decides to help them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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