In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland (2021)

Directed by

Brishkay Ahmed

Genre

documentary

Country

Afghanistan

Runtime

1h 23m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a team of women journalists running a TV station in Afghanistan. They face daily struggles to be treated as equals in a deeply sexist society.

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What happens

In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Brishkay Ahmed and released in 2021. The film profiles Zan TV, a television station in Afghanistan which is run by a team of women journalists who face challenges being treated equally with their male counterparts in a highly sexist and oppressive society. The film premiered at the 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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