She had to persist to make a connection because Mani dismissed her first email as spam. The tragedy happened to so many people in our country, the ones who left and the ones staying inside the country, they are all still suffering,” she said.Ĭiarrocchi spent two weeks tracking down Mani eventually getting a contact through her French producer. “At that time, I didn’t know it would be the last time I closed the door. Mani had left Afghanistan a few days before the fall of Kabul to attend a film festival in Europe. To see their circumstances collapse into a sort of pre-2002 scenario was unfathomable,” she said. “I think we had such an immediate reaction to the fall of Kabul in 2021 because the consequences for women were so dire. Like Lawrence, Ciarrocchi had been shaken by what she was seeing in the news out of Afghanistan. And I think her point of view, not to mention her camera abilities are remarkable. “Not only is she from Afghanistan, but her documentary was just so incredible and moving. “She’s the perfect person to do it,” said Lawrence. Ciarrocchi suggested Mani on the back of her powerful 2019 work A Thousand Girls Like Me about a young Afghan woman who seeks justice after having been sexually abused by her father for years.
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