The Oscar-winning actress speaks to the BBC ahead of the premiere of her documentary on Afghanistan's women.
Jennifer Lawrence, pictured in late 2022, is the producer on a new documentary called Bread and Roses, which explores the day-to-day lives of three women in Afghanistan"You only oppress women," the young woman says to the Taliban fighter."Okay, kill me!" she replies, raising her voice to match his. "You closed schools and universities! It's better to kill me!"
"My heart was beating so fast watching these women defy the Taliban," Lawrence says. "You don't see this side of the story, women fighting back, in the news everyday and it's an important part of our film, and the stories of these women.""They currently have no autonomy within their country. It is so important for them to be given the opportunity to document their own story, in their own way.
Both Lawrence and Ciarrocchi had watched her critically-acclaimed documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me, which profiles a 23-year-old Afghan woman who goes on national television to expose sexual abuse by her father, after being ignored by her family and the police. Another sequence captures a secret meeting in a windowless basement, off a side street in Kabul. More than a dozen women sit in rows of desks and chairs, arranged like a makeshift classroom. Steam rises from the drinks in their plastic cups.
"They were there whenever I faced any issues or problems," Mani says. "When women unite, everything is possible."Bread and Roses was secretly filmed with the use of multiple covert cameras in the weeks following the fall of Kabul. "There's not an end to this story," says Lawrence, "and you feel pretty much helpless when thinking about how to do anything about it. It's a hard thing to market."
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